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The Black Box: Writing the Race Young Adult Includes discussion questions for bookHenry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard fought evolution and the very meaning of African American identity, calling upon our country to transcend its manufactured divisions. Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste This is a literary history of Black America, but it is also an argument that African American history is inextricable from the