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Juneteenth

by Ellison, Ralph
Additional authors: Callahan, John F. -- 1940-
Edition statement:1st ed. Published by : Random House, (New York ) Physical details: xxiii, 368 p. 25 cm. ISBN:0394464575.
Subject(s): Afro-Americans -- Fiction. | Race relations -- Fiction. -- Southern States | Blacks -- United States | Race Relations -- United States | Literature, Modern -- United States | Southern States -- Fiction. -- Social life and customs -- 20th century | Historical fiction.
Year: 1999
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Juneteenth draws on the full richness of America's black cultural heritage, from the dazzling range of vernacular sources in its language to the way its structure echoes the call-and-response pattern of the black church and the riffs and bass lines of jazz. It offers jubilant proof that whatever else it means to be a true American, it means to be "somehow black," as Ellison once wrote. For even as Senator Sunraider was bathed from birth in the deep and nourishing waters of African-American folkways, so too are all Americans.

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