Letters from Black America Paperback by Pamela Newkirk

Product Details

• Publisher: Beacon Press (2011-01-11)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 400 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780807001158
• Item Weight: 607.82 grams
• Dimensions: 22.81 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm

The first-ever narrative history of African Americans told through their own letters
 
Letters from Black America fills a literary and historical void by presenting the spectrum of African American experience in the most intimate way possible—through the heartfelt correspondence of those who lived through monumental changes and pivotal events, from the American Revolution to the war in Iraq, from slavery to the election of Obama.

About the Author

Pamela Newkirk is the editor of A Love No Less: More Than Two Centuries of African American Love Letters and the author of Within the Veil: Black Journalists, White Media. An award-winning journalist and professor of journalism at New York University, she lives in New York City.