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Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilation
Lure and Loathing Essays on Race Identity and the Ambivalence of Assimilation Author:Nikki Giovanni, Henry Louis Gates Jr., James McPherson, Stephen L. Carter Eighteen prominent intellectuals offer a timely and provocative statement about what it means to be African American. Nikki Giovanni, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Pulitzer Prize-winner James McPherson, Yale law professor Stephen L. Carter, and others write with candor about the "lure and loathing" that characterize black life in white America.