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Film, Video Carla Peterson: Black Gotham: A Family History

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Title

  • Carla Peterson: Black Gotham: A Family History

Summary

  • Part detective tale, part social and cultural narrative, "Black Gotham: A Family History of African-Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York" (Yale University Press, 2011), is Carla Peterson's account of her quest to reconstruct the lives of her 19th-century ancestors. As she shares their stories and those of their friends, neighbors and business associates, she illuminates the greater history of African-American elites in New York City.

Event Date

  • April 13, 2011

Notes

  • -  Carla L. Peterson is professor of English at the University of Maryland at College Park. Her expertise includes nineteenth-century African American women writers and speakers in the northern U.S., African-American novelists in the post-Reconstruction era, and gender and culture in historical literature.
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Running Time

  • 51 minutes 56 seconds

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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