The Negro in American Civilization: A Study of Negro Life and Race Relations in the Light of Social Research
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1930).
Price: $200.00
Hardcover. First edition. Tall octavo. Blue cloth gilt. A fine copy with the spine gilt bright, lacking the rare dust jacket. Important scholarship, in the first part of the book Johnson gives a dispassionate and statistical analysis of various topics in African-American life. In the second part Johnson gathers the opinions of important scholars, including W.E.B. Du Bois.
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Charles Johnson
birth name: Charles Richard Johnson
born: 4/23/1948
Biography
African-American novelist, known for his National Book Award-winning novel Middle Passage. He was at the center of a literary firestorm in 1995 when some felt he criticized Alice Walker's The Color Purple for its negative portrayal of black men. Johnson began his career as a political cartoonist, and he is not to be confused with the Harlem Renaissance anthologist and scholar Charles S. Johnson.more