Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs (Loa #284): The Omni-Americans / South to a Very Old Place / The Hero and the Blues / Stomping the Blues / T

by Albert Murray and Neesh Santiago

Book Overview

Editors Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Paul Devlin present a definitive edition of Albert Murray's collected nonfiction, including his 1971 memoir South to a Very Old Place, inspiration for Imani Perry's South to America.

In his 1970 classic The Omni-Americans, Albert Murray (1916-2013) took aim at protest writers and social scientists who accentuated the "pathology" of race in American life. Against narratives of marginalization...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159853503X
• ISBN13: 9781598535037
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Library of America
• Length: 1072 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.2" x 7.8"