Autobiography as activism : three Black women of the Sixties / Margo V. Perkins.
2000
PS366.A35 P37 2000 (Mapit)
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Title
Autobiography as activism : three Black women of the Sixties / Margo V. Perkins.
Author
Perkins, Margo V.
ISBN
9781578062645 (pbk : alk. paper)
1578062640 (pbk : alk. paper)
9781578062300 (alk. paper)
1578062306 (alk. paper)
1578062640 (pbk : alk. paper)
9781578062300 (alk. paper)
1578062306 (alk. paper)
Imprint
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2000.
Language
English
Description
xviii, 161 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
PS366.A35 P37 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.48/896073/00922
Summary
A study of three Black Power narratives as instruments for radical social change.
Note
Based on the author's thesis (Cornell University).
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
"I am we": Black women activists writing autobiography
Literary antecedents in the struggle for freedom
On becoming: Activists' reflections on their formative experiences
Autobiography as political/personal Intervention
Gender and power dynamics in 1960s
Black nationalist struggle
Reading intertextually: Black power narratives then and now.
Literary antecedents in the struggle for freedom
On becoming: Activists' reflections on their formative experiences
Autobiography as political/personal Intervention
Gender and power dynamics in 1960s
Black nationalist struggle
Reading intertextually: Black power narratives then and now.