Kenneth MosternAutobiography and Black Identity Politics
Racialization in Twentieth-Century America
Part I. Theorizing Race, Autobiography, and Identity Politics: 1. What is
identity politics? Race and the autobiographical; 2. African American
autobiography and the field of autobiography studies; Part II. The Politics
of Negro Self-Representation: 3. Three theories of of the race of of W. E.
B. Du Bois; 4. The gender, race and culture of anti-lynching politics in
the Jim Crow era; 5. Representing the Negro as proletarian; Part III. The
Dialectics of Home: Gender, Nation and Blackness Since the 1960s: 6.
Malcolm X and the grammar of redemption; 7. The political identity 'woman'
s emergent from the space of black power; 8. Home and profession in black
feminism.
