Critical memory

By Houston A. Baker

Subjects: African americans, intellectual life, Soziale Situation, Social conditions, African American men in literature, Mann, American literature, african american authors, history and criticism, Fathers and sons in literature, African American men, African american men, Social aspects of Memory, American literature, African americans, social conditions, Fathers and sons, African Americans, Ethnische Beziehungen, History and criticism, Memory, Vater, African American authors, Sohn, Racism in literature, Intellectual life, Race relations, African americans in literature, Rassismus, Schwarze, United states, race relations, Social aspects

Description: "From the lone outcry of Richard Wright's Black Boy to the chorusing voices of Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, Critical Memory looks across the past half century to assess the current challenges to African American cultural and intellectual life. As Houston A. Baker recalls his own youth in Louisville, Kentucky, and Washington, D.C., he situates such figures as Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Shelby Steele, O.J. Simpson, Chris Rock, and Jesse Jackson within such issues as the embattled state of African American manhood and the "financing and promotion of black intellectuals.""--BOOK JACKET.