The Angry Ones is a powerful story of the hidden and (unacknowledged) racism that faces an educated black man in the professional world and the painful truths that warp interracial sex. Steve Hill, a young black army officer, travels east from California to New York in search of a simple dream: a secure job with a future. He lands a position as a publicity director for a vanity press, and his experiences soon rip the facade of hypocrisy and condescension from a liberal and superficially hip society with its own peculiar political and sexual agendas. Based on the author's own experiences, The Angry Ones is a searing look at the hidden conflicts and compromises underlying black-white relations.
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Based on the author's own experiences as the publicity director for a vanity press, The Angry Ones chronicles the hidden and unacknowledged racism that he faced as an educated black man in the professional world. First published in 1960, this book stripped the facade of hypocrisy and condescension that was pervasive in the liberal, superficially hip societal circles of the era. Williams went on to have one of the most important postwar literary careers in the country, which included the publication of his classic 1967 bestseller, The Man Who Cried I Am.
About the Author:
John A. Williams recently retired from Rutgers University, where he was Paul Robeson Distinguished Professor of English.
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- PublisherW W Norton & Co Inc
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0393314642
- ISBN 13 9780393314649
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages175
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