Autobiography and Black identity politics : racialization in twentieth-century America /

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"Why has autobiography been central to African-American political speech throughout the twentieth century? What is it about the racialization process that persistently places African-Americans in the position of speaking from personal experience?

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mostern, Kenneth
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Series:Cultural margins ; v. 6.
Subjects:
African Americans > Race identity.
African Americans > Politics and government.
Autobiography > Political aspects > United States.
Autobiography > African American authors.
Noirs américains > Identité ethnique.
Noirs américains > Politique et gouvernement.
Autobiographie > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Autobiographie > Auteurs noirs américains.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Race relations.
Ethnische Identität
Ethnische Beziehungen
Autobiografie
Politik
Etnisch bewustzijn.
Autobiografieën.
United States > Race relations.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States.
Schwärze
USA
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Theorizing race, autobiography, and identity politics
  • What is identity politics? Race and the autobiographical
  • African-American autobiography and the field of autobiography studies
  • The politics of Negro self-representation
  • Three theories of the race of W.E.B. Du Bois
  • The gender, race, and culture of anti-lynching politics in the Jim Crow era
  • Representing the Negro as proletarian
  • The dialectics of home: gender, nation and blackness since the 1960s
  • Malcolm X and the grammar of redemption
  • The political identity "woman" as emergent from the space of Black Power
  • Home and profession in black feminism.

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