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The Promise of Language: A Memoir Entertainment_Gift_Guide He endured forty years inRecounting a lifeand languageby an esteemed scholar of African American rhetoric. Finalist for Foreword Indies Book Awards in the Autobiography Memoir category! Featured in 2026 AUPress Book, Jacket, and Journal Show! In this powerful coming of age memoir, author, scholar, and linguist Keith Gilyard presents a testament to the transformative power of language. From his earliest days in the segregated New York City public schools of the 1950s and '60s