Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General

This Eloquent and dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave was first published in 1845, when its author was twenty eight years old & had just achieved his freedom. Although it was not uncommon during the era of American slavery for articulate Blacks who escaped to have their experiences published, Narraive Of The Life & Times Of Frederick Douglass is unique among these slave narratives because of Douglass's eloquent power of expression.

This book, the first to focus on the integration of the Gulf Coast, is Dr. Gilbert R. Mason's eyewitness account of harrowing episodes that occurred there during the civil rights movement. Newly opened by court order, documents from the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission's secret files enhance this riveting memoir written by a major civil rights figure in Mississippi. He joined his friends and allies Aaron Henry and the martyred Medgar Evers to combat injustices in one of the nation's most notorious bastions of segregation.

In Mississippi, the civil rights struggle began in May 1959...

"Those people are not Africans, they don't know a . thing about Africa; with names like Shaniqua, Shaligua, Mohammed, and all that crap, and all of them are in jail."
-Bill Cosby

If you found some truth in Bill Cosby's infamous "Ghettosburg Address" (given in 2004, during the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the landmark lawsuit Brown vs. Board of Education), where the comedian denounced the dumbing down of black America, read on. "Ass Backwards" is even more abrasive and provocative.

Much like a hibernating bear, author "Kodiack" awakens after thirty-five years to accept his...

"Those people are not Africans, they don't know a . thing about Africa; with names like Shaniqua, Shaligua, Mohammed, and all that crap, and all of them are in jail."
-Bill Cosby

If you found some truth in Bill Cosby's infamous "Ghettosburg Address" (given in 2004, during the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the landmark lawsuit Brown vs. Board of Education), where the comedian denounced the dumbing down of black America, read on. "Ass Backwards" is even more abrasive and provocative.

Much like a hibernating bear, author "Kodiack" awakens after thirty-five years to accept his...

Although historians frequently use memoirs as source material, too often they confine such usage to the anecdotal, and there is little methodological literature regarding the genre s possibilities and limitations. This study articulates an approach to using memoirs as instruments of historical understanding. Jennifer Jensen Wallach applies these principles to a body of memoirs about life in the American South during Jim Crow segregation, including works by Zora Neale Hurston, Willie Morris, Lillian Smith, Henry Louis Gates Jr., William Alexander Percy, and Richard Wright.

Wallach argues...