TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Claude
TI  - Manchild in the promised land
SN  - 0684864185
AV  - E185.97.B86 A3 1999
U1  - 974.7100496073092 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New York
PB  - Touchstone
KW  - Brown, Claude,
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Biography
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - African American neighborhoods
KW  - Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - 20th century
N2  - "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
ER  -