Ernest Dunbar

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Commissioner William Booth, of the New York Commission of Human Rights, interviews Ernest Dunbar, author of _The Black Expatriates; a Study of American Negroes in Exile_. The book explores perceptions from both sides when African Americans travel outside the United States.

Mr. Dunbar, who interviewed many African Americans living abroad and researched race relations in those countries, speaks about overseas perceptions to American race issues as well as black American perceptions of discrimination in those countries.

https://lccn.loc.gov/67011363


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