Henry Louis Gates Quote

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?


Colored People (ed. Vintage, 2011) - ISBN: 9780307764430


I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most...

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most...

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most...

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most...