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- catalog abstract ""The Black Experience in the 20th Century is both a personal memoir and a powerful meditation on what W.E.B. Dubois defined at the beginning of the century as " ... the problem of the colour line; of the relations between the lighter and darker races of man ..." Using Dubois as a point of departure, Abrahams writes passionately, about the inherent "wrongness" of racial hatred and contemplates such timeless questions as: "Why was colour the most crucial issue of our century?" "When will we get over the deep psychic and emotional damage done by the racial experience?" This is one of the major themes of the memoir - that of the quest for an integrated identity - a challenge that faces people of colour in both first and third-world countries." "The Black Experience in the 20th Century is also the personal journey of Peter Abrahams. It is the odyssey of a young South African who worked for a time as a seaman in order to leave his homeland for wartime Britain and post-war France to become a writer; it is the story of his personal relationships with the Black literati of the day and his involvement in the pan-Africanist movement of the 1950s, which allows for his fascinating personal pen-portraits of men like George Padmore, W.E.B. Dubois, Julius Nyerere, Kwame Nkrumah, Richard Wright and Langston Hughes. It is how the journey takes him to the Caribbean island of Jamaica, where he and his wife, Daphne, and their three children find sanctuary from racial divisiveness at "Coyaba." Finally, it is about the author's lifelong companionship with Daphne and how their multiracial union reflects a symbolic "one bloodedness" mirroring Abrahams' own admirable sensibilities."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Black experience in the twentieth century".
- catalog contributor b12027300.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""The Black Experience in the 20th Century is also the personal journey of Peter Abrahams. It is the odyssey of a young South African who worked for a time as a seaman in order to leave his homeland for wartime Britain and post-war France to become a writer; it is the story of his personal relationships with the Black literati of the day and his involvement in the pan-Africanist movement of the 1950s, which allows for his fascinating personal pen-portraits of men like George Padmore, W.E.B. Dubois, Julius Nyerere, Kwame Nkrumah, Richard Wright and Langston Hughes.".
- catalog description ""The Black Experience in the 20th Century is both a personal memoir and a powerful meditation on what W.E.B. Dubois defined at the beginning of the century as " ... the problem of the colour line; of the relations between the lighter and darker races of man ..." Using Dubois as a point of departure, Abrahams writes passionately, about the inherent "wrongness" of racial hatred and contemplates such timeless questions as: "Why was colour the most crucial issue of our century?" "When will we get over the deep psychic and emotional damage done by the racial experience?" This is one of the major themes of the memoir - that of the quest for an integrated identity - a challenge that faces people of colour in both first and third-world countries."".
- catalog description "It is how the journey takes him to the Caribbean island of Jamaica, where he and his wife, Daphne, and their three children find sanctuary from racial divisiveness at "Coyaba." Finally, it is about the author's lifelong companionship with Daphne and how their multiracial union reflects a symbolic "one bloodedness" mirroring Abrahams' own admirable sensibilities."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "409 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0253338336 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Bloomington : Indiana University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Jamaica".
- catalog spatial "South Africa".
- catalog subject "813/.54 B 21".
- catalog subject "Abrahams, Peter, 1919-".
- catalog subject "Authors, Black Biography.".
- catalog subject "Authors, Jamaican 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Authors, South African 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Blacks History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Blacks Jamaica History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Blacks South Africa History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "PR9265.9.A2 Z465 2000".
- catalog subject "Race relations History 20th century.".
- catalog title "Black experience in the twentieth century".
- catalog title "The Black experience in the 20th century : an autobiography and meditation / Peter Abrahams.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".