Critical memory
Subtitle: public spheres, African American writing, and Black fathers and sons in America
By: Houston A. Baker, Jr.
Series: Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt lecture series ;; no. 8
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: African Americans -- Social conditions.; African American men -- Social conditions.; Fathers and sons -- United States.; African Americans -- Intellectual life.; Memory -- Social aspects -- United States.; American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.; African American men in literature.; Fathers and sons in literature.; Racism in literature.; United States -- Race relations.
Description: "From the lone outcry of Richard Wright's Black Boy to the chorusing voices of Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, Critical Memory looks across the past half century to assess the current challenges to African American cultural and intellectual life. As Houston A. Baker recalls his own youth in Louisville, Kentucky, and Washington, D.C., he situates such figures as Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Shelby Steele, O.J.

Simpson, Chris Rock, and Jesse Jackson within such issues as the embattled state of African American manhood and the "financing and promotion of black intellectuals.""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 75).