Manchild in the Promised Land: A Modern Classic of the Black Experience

Manchild in the Promised Land: A Modern Classic of the Black Experience
Claude Brown (Author)
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During his first year at Howard University, Claude Brown wrote an article for the magazine Dissent about growing up in Harlem. The piece attracted the attention of a publisher, who encouraged him to write his autobiography. The result, Manchild in the Promised Land, traces Claude Brown's own transformation from a hardened, streetwise young criminal to a successful, self-made man.

This autobiographical novel, in print for more than thirty years, has been widely praised for its portrayal of the "lost" generation of African-Americans whose parents left the sharecropping lifestyle of the South for the crowded inner cities of the North.

• Rank: #61117 in Books
• Published on: 1966-10-01
• Released on: 1995-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 432 pages