Coming Through the Fire: Surviving Race and Place in America

by C. Eric Lincoln

Book Overview

In Coming through the Fire , prominent scholar and writer C. Eric Lincoln addresses the most important issue of our time with insights forged by a lifetime of confronting racial oppression in America. Born in a small rural town in northern Alabama, raised by his grandparents, Lincoln portrays in rich detail the nuances of racial conflict and control that characterized the community of Athens, personal experiences which would lead him to dedicate his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822317362
• ISBN13: 9780822317364
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 9.6"