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A 1992 NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION'S HERSKOVITS AWARD FOR 1993
HONORABLE MENTION FOR THE 1992 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL PRIZE OF THE
MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
"Montaigne invented the modern essay; Kwame Anthony Appiah has the brilliance to extend it."
The Village Voice
"A ground-breaking-as well as ground-clearing-analysis...Mr. Appiah delivers what may very well be one of the handful of theoretical works on race that will help preserve our humanity and guide us gracefully into the next century."
Charles Johnson, The New York Times Book Review
"Exquisitely and painstakingly argued."
Keith Q. Warner, The Washington Post Book World
"An exceptional work, whose contextual sweep and lucidity provide a refreshing intellectual tone away from yahoo populism. In many profound ways, Kwame Appiah's In My Father's House ushers in a new level of discourse on race and culture, placing it within a universal narrative-and where else should it belong?... Without question, a first of its kind."
Wole Soyinka, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
"Appiah is a writer of great charm and fluency...His style is engagingly flamboyant and as persuasive as it is provocative."
The Weekly Mail (South Africa)
"An absorbing and path-breaking book by a gifted philosopher."
Richard Rorty, University of Virginia
"More than a timely book....In My Father's House deserves to be read by all who wish to seek fresh directions away from Africa's long-standing crisis."
West Africa
Kwame Anthony Appiah is Professor of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University.
His books include Assertion and Conditionals (1985), For Truth in Semantics (1986), Necessary Questions (1989), and the novel Avenging Angel ( 1991).”