Title: Critical memory
Subtitle: public spheres, African American writing, and Black fathers and sons in America
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.
Subjects: Social conditions, African Americans, Race relations, Intellectual life, African American men in literature, History and criticism, American literature, Social aspects of Memory, Fathers and sons, Fathers and sons in literature, African American authors, Memory, African American men, Racism in literature, Ethnische Beziehungen, Rassismus, Sohn, Schwarze, Mann, Vater, Social aspects, Soziale Situation, African americans, social conditions, African american men, African americans, intellectual life, United states, race relations, American literature, african american authors, history and criticism, African americans in literature
Places: United States