Autobiography and Black identity politics
Subtitle: racialization in twentieth-century America
By: Kenneth Mostern.
Series: Cultural margins ;; v. 6
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: African Americans -- Race identity; African Americans -- Politics and government; Autobiography -- Political aspects -- United States; Autobiography -- African American authors; United States -- Race relations
Description: "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?

In Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-Century America Kenneth Mostern illustrates the relationship between narrative and racial categories such as "colored," "Negro," "black," or "African American" in the work of writers such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Malcolm X, Paul Robeson, Angela Davis, and bell hooks. This wide-ranging study will interest all those working in African-American studies, cultural studies, and literary theory."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-274) and index.