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Author Perkins, Margo V., author.

Title Autobiography as activism : three Black women of the Sixties / Margo V. Perkins.

Publication Info. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2000]
Ã2000

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 Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource (xviii, 161 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Note Based on the author's thesis (Cornell University).
Based on the author's thesis (Cornell University).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-157) and index.
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.
Summary A study of three Black Power narratives as instruments for radical social change.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
Note All rights reserved.
Subject 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.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
African American women -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Autobiography -- African American authors.
African American women in literature.
Autobiography -- Women authors.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies.
Added Title ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
ISBN 1578062306 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9781578062300 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1578062640 (paperback ; alk. paper)
9781578062645 paperback
Standard No. heb40097 hdl

 
    
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