Black Autobiography in America

American autobiography become Bois Brown called chapter Christian civilization Cleaver close color create culture direct Douglass effect example experience face fact feel fight force freedom give hand Hughes human ibid ideas identity important individual irony Jackson John kind Land language learned letters literary live look Malcolm masses master McKay meaning MICHIGAN mind moral movement narrators Negro never nigger object oppression organization passage period political Press prison problem question race racial Redding relations religion resistance revolutionary rhetoric role satire sense sentence slave narratives slavery social society soul South spirit stand struggle style tell thing tion tone tradition UNIVERSITY values voice whole workers writer York