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Genre/Form: | Autobiographies Criticism, interpretation, etc Autobiography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Sartwell, Crispin, 1958- Act like you know. Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 1998 (DLC) 97049139 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Crispin Sartwell |
OCLC Number: | 1145774895 |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 212 pages) |
Contents: | Truth and concealment in slave narratives -- Veil and vision: knowledge in Du Bois -- Division and disintegration: Malcolm X on the self -- Freedom and fragmentation: the art of Zora Neale Hurston -- Rap music and the uses of stereotype. |
Responsibility: | Crispin Sartwell. |
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Abstract:
Taking as his starting point African-American autobiography, Crispin Sartwell argues that there is a fundamental elusiveness to white identity. This theory is based on the concept that whiteness defines itself as normative, marking "other" identity as "racial" or "ethnic" deviations.
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