Gerald Early
Gerald Lyn Early (born April 21, 1952) is an American essayist and American culture critic. He is currently the Merle Kling Professor of Modern letters, of English, African studies, African-American studies, American culture studies, and Director, Center for Joint Projects in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.He also served as a consultant on Ken Burns' documentary films ''Baseball'', ''Jazz'', ''Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson'', ''The War'', and ''Muhammad Ali''. He is a regular commentator on National Public Radio's ''Fresh Air''. His essays have appeared in numerous editions of ''Best American Essays'' series. He writes on topics as diverse as American literature, the Korean War, African-American culture, Afro-American autobiography, non-fiction prose, baseball, jazz, prizefighting, Motown, Miles Davis, Muhammad Ali and Sammy Davis Jr.
In 2024, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society. Provided by Wikipedia
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This is where I came in Black America in the 1960s
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A level playing field : African American athletes and the republic of sports
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011Format: Book
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The Culture of bruising : essays on prizefighting, literature, and modern American culture
Hopewell, N.J. : Ecco Press, 1994
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How the war in the streets is won : poems on the quest of love and faith
Saint Louis, Mo. : Time Being Books, 1995
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Tuxedo Junction : essays on American culture
New York : Ecco Press : Distributed by Norton, 1989
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This is where I came in : Black America in the 1960s
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2003Format: Government Document Book
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This is where I came in : Black America in the 1960s
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2003Format: Book
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One nation under a groove : Motown and American culture
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2004
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One nation under a groove : Motown and American culture
Hopewell, N.J. : Ecco Press, 1995
1st ed.Format: Book
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Daughters : on family and fatherhood
Reading, Masachusetts. : Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1994Format: Book
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Ain't but a place : an anthology of African American writings about St. Louis
St. Louis : Missouri Historical Society Press : Distributed by University of Missouri Press, 1998Other Authors: “…Early, Gerald Lyn…”
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My soul's high song : the collected writings of Countee Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance
New York : Doubleday, 1991Other Authors: “…Early, Gerald Lyn…”
1st ed.
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Miles Davis and American culture
St. Louis, Mo. : Missouri Historical Society Press, 2001Other Authors: “…Early, Gerald Lyn…”
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Lure and loathing : essays on race, identity, and the ambivalence of assimilation
New York : Viking, 1993Other Authors: “…Early, Gerald Lyn…”
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Lure and loathing : essays on race, identity, and the ambivalence of assimilation
New York : Penguin Books, 1994Other Authors: “…Early, Gerald Lyn…”
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Speech and power : the African-American essay and its cultural content, from polemics to pulpit
New York : Ecco Press, 1992Other Authors: “…Early, Gerald Lyn…”
1st ed.
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The Muhammad Ali reader
Hopewell, N.J. : Ecco Press, 1998Other Authors: “…Early, Gerald Lyn…”
1st ed.
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