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Item Details
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CRITICAL MEMORY
PUBLIC SPHERES, AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITING AND BLACK FATHERS AND SONS IN AMERICA |
| By: |
Houston A. Baker |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£35.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0820322407 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780820322407 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
19 March, 2001 |
| Series: |
Georgia Southern University Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt Lecture Series No. 8 |
| Pages: |
96 |
| Translated from: |
English |
| Description: |
From the lone outcry of Richard Wright's "Black Boy" to the chorusing voices of Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, this work examines the second half of the 20th century to assess the challenges to African American cultural and intellectual life. |
| Synopsis: |
Dispatches from the battleground of black ideas and identity 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." The "memory" of the book's title is doubly "critical." It is imperative, Baker says, that we keep alive the "embarrassing, macabre, and always bizarre" memory of race in America. In another respect, the remembering must be pointed and keen enough to discern truth from its often highly politicized, commercialized trappings.Throughout the book, Baker returns again and again to the triad of race, "likability" (the compromises by which one gains credibility in white America), and "clearance" (the separation of blacks from the "rights, spaces, and privileges of American citizenship"). These concepts, Baker argues, gird the meritocracy, still in force, that claimed progress in granting black men like his father the freedom to work themselves to death behind a desk instead of a mule. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
University of Georgia Press |
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