Manchild in the promised land / Claude Brown.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Touchstone, 1999Edition: First Touchstone editionDescription: 415 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0684864185
- 9780684864181
- 0025173251
- 9780025173255
- Brown, Claude, 1937-
- African Americans -- Biography
- African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions
- African American neighborhoods -- New York (State) -- New York
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- 974.7100496073092
- E185.97.B86 A3 1999
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 974.7100496073092 BRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A193810B |
"Manchild in the Promised Land is indeed one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time. This thinly fictionalized account of Charles Brown's childhood as a hardened, streetwise criminal trying to survive the toughest streets of Harlem has been heralded as the definitive account of everyday life for the first generation of African Americans raised in the Northern ghettoes of the 1940s and 1950s ..."--Publisher's note on back cover.
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