Manchild in the promised land

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Label

Manchild in the promised land

Statement of responsibility

Claude Brown

Creator

• Brown, Claude, 1937-

Subject

• Schwarze
• Literaturwissenschaft
• Brown, Claude, 1937-
• New York (N.Y.) -- Quartier de Harlem -- Conditions sociales -- 1945-1970
• Biography
• USA
• New York (N.Y.) -- Quartier de Harlem
• Roman
• African Americans
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions
• Brown, Claude, 1937-
• New York (State) -- New York | Harlem
• African Americans -- Biography
• Noirs américains -- États-Unis | New York (N.Y.) | Quartier de Harlem -- Conditions sociales -- 1945-1970
• New York (State) -- New York
• Rassendiskriminierung
• Social conditions
• African Americans -- Social conditions
• Farbiger
• African Americans -- New York (State) | New York -- Social conditions
• New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

"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

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

JRS

Dewey number

305.896073

Index

no index present

LC call number

E185.97.B86

LC item number

A3 1999

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries