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The Promise of Language: A Memoir

By Keith Gilyard, Melba Joyce Boyd (Editor)
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By Keith Gilyard, Melba Joyce Boyd (Editor)

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Recounting a life—and language—by an esteemed scholar of African American rhetoric.

Finalist for Foreword Indies Book Awards in the Autobiography/ Memoir category!
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In this powerful coming-of-age memoir, author, scholar, and linguist Keith Gilyard presents a testament to the transformative power of language. From his earliest days in the segregated New York City public schools of the 1950s and '60s through his ascent in academia, the rhyt...

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