Omni-Americans: New Perspectives on Black Experience and American Culture.

MURRAY, Albert.

$975.00

Item Number: 133165

New York: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, 1970.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For my good friend Oliver Who will keep the faith Albert Murray.” Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Hess and/ or Antupit.

Murray’s first collection of essays, The Omni-Americans: New Perspectives on Black Experience and American Culture (1970), used historical fact, literature, and music to attack false perceptions of black American life. "For all who deal creatively with the problem of who we Americans are, what we are, and where we are, it is indispensable" (Ralph Ellison).