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Critical Memory

Public Spheres, African American Writing and Black Fathers and Sons in America

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Houston A. Baker

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Hardback

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Georgia Southern University Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt Lecture Series

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Dispatches from the battleground of black ideas and identity From the lone outcry of Richard Wright's Black Boy to the chorusing voices of Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, Critical Memory looks across the past half-century to assess the current challenges to African American cultural and intellectual life. As Houston A. Baker recalls his own youth in Louisville, Kentucky, and Washington, D.C., he situates such figures as Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Shelby Steele, O.J. Simpson, Chris Rock, and Jesse Jackson within such issues as the embattled state of African American manhood and the ""financing and promotion of black intellectuals."" The ""memory"" of the book's title is doubly ""critical."" It is imperative, Baker says, that we keep alive the ""embarrassing, macabre, and always bizarre"" memory of race in America. In another respect, the remembering must be pointed and keen enough to discern truth from its often highly politicized, commercialized trappings. Throughout the book, Baker returns again and again to the triad of race, ""likability"" (the compromises by which one gains credibility in white America), and ""clearance"" (the separation of blacks from the ""rights, spaces, and privileges of American citizenship""). These concepts, Baker argues, gird the meritocracy, still in force, that claimed progress in granting black men like his father the freedom to work themselves to death behind a desk instead of a mule.

Author Biography:

Houston A. Baker Jr. is a professor of English at Duke University. Among his honors and achievements in American letters, Baker is a past president of the Modern Language Association. His books include Workings of the Spirits: The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing and Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy.

Release date NZ

March 31st, 2001

Author

Houston A. Baker

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

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Series

Georgia Southern University Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt Lecture Series

Dimensions

133x216x12

ISBN-13

9780820322407

Product ID

7689617

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