Negroland Picture Books from the foothills of North

from the foothills of North Carolina

in his vernacular

and a wrenching look at the lonesome

“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder

” —Los Angeles Times

Negroland Picture Books from the foothills of North*ships in 7 10 business days* At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiachere is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the authors rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned with distancing itself from whites and the black generality while tirelessly measuring itself against both. Born in upper crust black Chicagoher father was for years head of