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"Ain't But a Place": An Anthology of African American Writings About St. Louis.(Review)
African American Review
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September 22, 2001
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Early, Gerald, ed. "Ain't But a Place": An Anthology of African American Writings About St. Louis. St. Louis: Missouri Historical P, 1998. 515 pp.$39.95 cloth/$24.95 paper.
Compared to New York and Chicago, other centers of African American life and culture have been relatively neglected. With this rich collection the distinguished essayist Gerald Early has gone a long way toward rectifying this situation for the great mid-continental city on the Mississippi. "Ain't But a Place" samples a variety of writings concerning St. Louis (and East St. Louis), from slave ...
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