The Future of the Race

1996 book
First edition (publ. Knopf)

The Future of the Race is a 1996 book by prominent African-American scholars Henry Louis Gates and Cornel West. It is both commentary and criticism on W. E. B. Du Bois' essay "The Talented Tenth" . The Vintage Books edition includes the original text by Du Bois.

Bibliography

Gates, Henry (1996). The Future of the Race. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 0-679-76378-3.


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  • The Signifying Monkey (1988)
  • The Future of the Race (1996, with Cornel West)
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  • African American Lives (2006–2008)
  • Faces of America (2010)
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  • The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (2013)
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