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

Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 280 pages) Series Cultural margins ; v. 6 Cultural margins ; v. 6. 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 Summary "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."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-274) and index Notes Print version record Subject African Americans -- Race identity. African Americans -- Politics and government. Autobiography -- Political aspects -- United States Autobiography -- African American authors. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. African Americans -- Politics and government African Americans -- Race identity Autobiography -- African American authors Race relations Ethnische Identität Ethnische Beziehungen Autobiografie Politik Etnisch bewustzijn. Autobiografieën. SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494 Subject United States Schwärze USA Form Electronic book ISBN 0511006101 9780511006104 0511117272 9780511117275 9780521646796 0521646790 9780521641142 0521641144 9780511483172 0511483171

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