Act like you know : African-American autobiography and white identity /

Act like you know : African-American autobiography and white identity / Crispin Sartwell.

"Black autobiographical discourses, from the earliest slave narratives to the most contemporary urban raps, have each in their own way gauged and confronted the character of white society." Sartwell analyses these African American writings and gains a unique perspective on and picture of w...

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Main Author: Sartwell, Crispin, 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Subjects:
American prose literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African American authors > Biography > History and criticism.
Enslaved persons > United States > Biography > History and criticism.
African Americans > Biography > History and criticism.
Enslaved persons' writings, American > History and criticism.
Enslaved persons > United States > Intellectual life.
White people > Race identity > United States.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
Autobiography.
Simmons University. > Library. > Gifts. York.
United States > Race relations.

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Call Number: PS366.A35 S27 1998
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