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Autobiography as Activism
A study of three Black Power narratives as instruments for radical social change Angela Davis, Assata Shakur (a.k.a. JoAnne Chesimard), and Elaine Brown are the only women activists of the Black Power movement who have published book-length autobiographies. In bearing witness to that era, these militant newsmakers wrote in part to educate and to mobilize their anticipated
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Paperback
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182 pages
Published
December 18th 2009
by University Press of Mississippi
(first published April 10th 2000)
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Apr 06, 2014
Sasha Reinoso
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Sociologically- or Politically-Inclined Folk
Very educating and thoughtful in its connections but, to me, the title is ill-fitting. The author occasionally drifts and spends pages on a vaguely-related tangent regarding autobiographies outside of the intended study. That being said, I would definitely be interested in the same type of analysis purposefully broadened to include more activists of the same era.
College-level students of black history will find this an important study of women and activism providing a portrait of three black women of the sixties (Angela Davis, Assata Shakur and Elaine Brown) who were the only activists to have published book-length autobiographies Her study of their books provides an important exploration of activists and biographical writing All though Dr. Perkins book was good in that it educated her readers :)
Apr 14, 2009
Medina
marked it as to-read
Recommends it for:
non-fiction writers, 70s era history buffs
Shelves:
never-finished
love subject matter. hate (tradition of) academic vernacular; so elitist.
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