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Autobiography as activism : three Black women of the Sixties
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- Creator
- Margo V. Perkins
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2000]
- ©2000
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 161 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 1604737352, 9786613455192, 9781578062645, 1283455196, 1578062640, 1578062306, 9781604737356, 9781578062300
- OCLC
- ocm42289988, ocn318813220
- Based on the author's thesis (Cornell University).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-157) and index.
- Ch. 1. "I am We": Black Women Activists Writing Autobiography -- Ch. 2. Literary Antecedents in the Struggle for Freedom -- Ch. 3. On Becoming: Activists' Reflections on Their Formative Experiences -- Ch. 4. Autobiography as Political/Personal Intervention -- Ch. 5. Gender and Power Dynamics in 1960s Black Nationalist Struggle -- Ch. 6. Reading Intertextually: Black Power Narratives Then and Now
Subjects
- Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944- Angela Davis.
- Brown, Elaine, 1943- Taste of power.
- Shakur, Assata. Assata.
- American prose literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
- African American women political activists -- Biography -- History and criticism.
- American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- African Americans -- Biography -- History and criticism.
- Autobiography -- African American authors.
- Autobiography -- Women authors.