Black Lives: Essays in African American Biography: Essays in African American Biography,9780765603296

Black Lives: Essays in African American Biography: Essays in African American Biography

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ISBN13: 9780765603296
ISBN10: 0765603292
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-12-31
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

These fifteen chapters comprise groundbreaking biographical sketches of notable but heretofore unknown (or lesser known) African Americans, among them General Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr. (the first African American four-star general in the U.S. Air Force); William Levi Dawson (a composer); Vinnette Carroll (a director and playwright); Elizabeth Ross Haynes (an early political speaker and activist); Richard Allen (founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church); Besse Head (a South African-born writer); Maria Stewart (a nineteenth-century African American writer); and a number of others.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix(4)
Julius E. Thompson
Preface xiii(2)
Acknowledgments xv
Part I. Intellectual Biography 3(64)
1. Maulana Karenga, Kawaida, and Phenomenology: An Intellectual Study
3(16)
James L. Conyers Jr.
2. Vinnette Carroll: African American Director and Playwright
19(13)
Calvin A. McClinton
3. Higher than the Eagle: The Legacy of General Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr.
32(12)
Earnest Norton Bracey
4. The Shaping of a Public Biography: Richard Allen and the African Methodist Episcopal Church
44(23)
Mitchell Kachun
Part II. Cultural Biography 67(64)
5. Outlaw Women and Toni Morrison's Communities
67(17)
Gloria T. Randle
6. Bessie Head: The Idealist
84(11)
Owen G. Mordaunt
7. Working toward the Betterment of the Community: Elizabeth Ross Haynes
95(15)
LaVerne Gyant
8. A Black Composer Speaks: William Levi Dawson
110(7)
Ralph Anthony Russell
9. Keeping Truth on My Side: Maria Stewart
117(14)
Ida Young
Part III. Oral History and Biography as Teaching Tools 131(80)
10. Through Trinbagonian Eyes: Self-Portrait of a Caribbean Country
131(20)
Clement London
11. Life Ain't Been No Crystal Stair: The Rhetoric of Autobiography in Black Female Slave Narratives
151(9)
Olga Idriss Davis
12. Literary Biographical Profiles as Teaching Tools in a University Black History Course
160(9)
Robin Balthrope
13. An Intellectual Aesthetic for Black Adult Education: Malcolm X
169(13)
Andrew Smallwood
14. Dr. James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey of Achimota: Preacher, Scholar, Teacher, and Gentleman
182(15)
Daniel Boamah-Wiafe
15. Bothersome Biography: Emmett Jay Scott
197(14)
Maceo Crenshaw Dailey Jr.
About the Editor and Contributors 211(4)
Index 215

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