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Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-Century America - Cultural Margins
Mostern, Kenneth (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-Century America - Cultural Margins
Mostern, Kenneth (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Why has autobiography been central to African American political speech throughout the twentieth century? Kenneth Mostern illustrates the relationship between narrative and racial categories in the work of writers such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Malcom X, Martin Luther King, Paul Robeson, Angela Davis and bell hooks.
294 pages, black & white illustrations
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | June 28, 1999 |
ISBN13 | 9780521641142 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 294 |
Dimensions | 140 × 216 × 21 mm · 435 g |