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Article: African Americans: African American National Biography.(Book review)
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- March 22, 2008
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African Americans African American National Biography. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbothan. 8 vols. New York: Oxford UP, 2007. 5,568 pp. $995.
"The editors preface their presentation of forty-one hundred biographies in eight volumes by noting that, until recently, the Dictionary of American Biography included just a hundred and twenty African-Americans, while black biographical dictionaries have been unabashedly hagiographic. A more thorough historical approach continually reminds us of the troubles of even iconic figures."
The New Yorker, Mar. 3, 2008: 83.
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