African American journalists autobiography as memoir and manifesto /

• Main Author: Hall, Calvin L., 1964-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009.
• Subjects: American prose literature > African American authors > History and criticism.; African American authors > Biography > History and criticism.; African American journalists > Biography > History and criticism.; Autobiography > African American authors.; African American authors > Intellectual life.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Journalism.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess; MyiLibrary
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 117 p.)
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9780810869318 (electronic bk.); 0810869314 (electronic bk.)

In the last decade of the 20th century, during a time when African Americans were starting to take inventory of the gains of the civil rights movement and its effects on the lives of black professionals in the public sphere, the memoirs of several journalists were published, a number of which became national bestsellers. African American Journalists examines select autobiographies written by African American journalists in order to explore the relationship between race, class, gender, and journalismpractice. At the heart of this study is the contention that contemporary memoirs written by Afr.