Manchild in the Promised Land -- Claude Brown, Paperback Gum Gwendolyn Tatum

Gwendolyn Tatum

eugenicists wished to regenerate the nation's racial profile

I'm more me every f***ing year

ISBN: 9781368095051

and after his self-defense proved mortal

Manchild in the Promised Land -- Claude Brown, Paperback Gum Gwendolyn TatumWith more than two million copies in print, Manchild in the Promised Land is one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time the definitive account of African American youth in Harlem of the 1940s and 1950s, and a seminal work of modern literature. Published during a literary era marked by the ascendance of black writers such as Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Alex Haley, this thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown's