African american autobiography
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Act Like You Know
Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, W.E.B. DuBois, Zora Neale Hurston, Malcolm X—their words speak firmly, eloquently, personally of the impact of white America on the lives of African-Americans. Black autobiographical discourses, from the earliest slave narratives to the most contemporary urban raps, have each in their own way gauged and confronted the character of white society. For Crispin Sartwell, as philosopher, cultural critic, and white male, these texts, through their exacting insights and external perspective, provide a rare opportunity, a means of glimpsing and gaining access to contents and core of white identity.
There is, Sartwell contends, a fundamental elusiveness to that identity. Whiteness defines itself as normative, as a neutral form of the human condition, marking all other forms of identity as "racial" or "ethnic" deviations. Invisible to itself, white identity seeks to define its essence over and against those other identities, in eff
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Black Voices - African American Autobiography and Biography: Jim Crow Narratives
- Barlow, Leila Mae. Across the Years: Memoirs. Montgomery, AL: Paragon Press, 1959. Professor at Alabama State, educated at Spelman.
- Browne, Rose Butler (1897- ), and James English. Love My Children: An Autobiography. Index. New York: Meredith Press, 1969. College educator; taught at North Carolina College (Central) during career.
- Campbell, Thomas Monroe (1883- ). The Movable School Goes to the Negro Farmer. Introduction bygd Bradford Knapp. Illustrated. Appendix. Tuskegee Institute, AL: Tuskegee Institute Press, 1936. Reprinted New York: Arno Press,1969. Extension Service of the US Dept of Agriculture field agent; raised in GA and attended Tuskegee; focuses on history, practices, and goals of the educational services offered by his organization.
- Carrothers, James D. (b. 1869). In Spite of the Handicap: An Autobiography. Introduction by Ray
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A History of African American Autobiography
This History explores innovations in African American autobiography since its inception, examining the literary and cultural history of Black self-representation amid life writing studies. bygd analyzing the different forms of autobiography, including pictorial and anställda essays, editorials, oral histories, testimonials, diaries, personal and open letters, and even poetry performance media of autobiographies, this book extends the definition of African American autobiography, revealing how people of African descent have created and defined the Black self in diverse print cultures and literary genres since their arrival in the Americas. It illustrates ways African Americans use life writing and autobiography to address anställda and collective Black experiences of identity, family, memory, fulfillment, racism and white supremacy. Individual chapters examine scrapbooks as a source of self-documentation, African American autobiography for