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Act like you know : African-American autobiography and white identity
- Title
- Act like you know : African-American autobiography and white identity / Crispin Sartwell.
- Author
- Sartwell, Crispin, 1958-
- Publication
- Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PS366.A35 S27 1998 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 212 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "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 white identity.--Back cover
- Subjects
- American prose literature > African American authors
- African American authors > Biography
- African Americans > Biography
- Enslaved persons' writings, American
- White people > Race identity
- United States
- Autobiographies
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Biographies
- 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
- Autobiographies as Topic
- autobiography (genre)
- 18.06 Anglo-American literature
- Race relations
- Enslaved persons > Biography
- Autobiografie
- Ethnische Identität
- Autobiografische Literatur
- Autobiografieën
- Culturele identiteit
- Letterkunde
- Amerikaans
- United States > Race relations
- USA
- Schwärze
- Weiße
- autobiographies (literary works)
- Genre/Form
- Autobiography
- autobiographies (literary works)
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Autobiographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-205) and index.
- Contents
- Truth and concealment in slave narratives -- Veil and vision: knowledge in Du Bois -- Division and disintegration: Malcolm X on the self -- Freedom and fragmentation: the art of Zora Neale Hurston -- Rap music and the uses of stereotype.
- ISBN
- 0226735265
- 9780226735269
- 0226735273
- 9780226735276
- LCCN
- 97049139
- OCLC
- ocm37955770
- 37955770
- SCSB-368070
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library