Black Autobiography in America

American autobiography become Bois Brown called 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 John kind land language learned letters literary live look Malcolm masses master material McKay meaning MICHIGAN mind moral movement narrators Negro never nigger object oppression organization passage period political possible 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 values voice whole workers writer York