Critical memory

By Houston A. Baker

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

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.