Living our stories, telling our truths : autobiography and the making of the African-American intellectual tradition
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- ISBN: 068912192X
- ISBN: 9780689121920
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464 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Publisher: New York : Scribner, c1995.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 418-454) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Defining matters of principle / Alexander Crummell -- To tell the truth freely / Ida Wells-Barnett -- The creative genius of the Negro / James Weldon Johnson -- In defense of the Black working class / Harry Haywood -- Conflicting blueprints for Black writing / Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston -- The autobiographical legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois -- The confessions of James Baldwin -- Malcolm X and the resurrection of the dead -- The creation of a Black literary aesthetic / Gwendolyn Brooks and Amiri Baraka -- The need for independent Black leadership / Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. |
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