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Henry Louis Gates

Tongues of Fire
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The history of the black church

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New Books
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Discussed in this essay: Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Penguin Press. 320 pages. $30. Humour, by Terry Eagleton. Yale University Press.…

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The Grind and the Gun
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"Attributing white-on-black violence entirely to racism misses the larger problems that poorer people face in this country. They suffer a thousand cuts that never get talked about, except when the victims bleed to death."

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Black letters on a white page
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In a new compendium of African American literature, a world of politics

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