Critical memory
public spheres, African American writing, and Black fathers and sons in America
About this book
"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.
Details
- OL Work ID
- OL4315226W
Subjects
Social conditionsAfrican AmericansRace relationsIntellectual lifeAfrican American men in literatureHistory and criticismAmerican literatureSocial aspects of MemoryFathers and sonsFathers and sons in literatureAfrican American authorsMemoryAfrican American menRacism in literatureEthnische BeziehungenRassismusSohnSchwarze