Black Lives: Essays in African American Biography

Table of contents

• Black Lives *
• Black Lives - Essays in African American Biography *
• Dedication *
• Contents *
• Foreword ix
• Preface xiii
• Acknowledgments xv
• Part I Intellectual Biography *
• 1: Maulana Karenga, Kawaida, and Phenomenology - An Intellectual Study *
• 2: Vinnette Carroll - African American Director and Playwright 19
• 3: Higher Than the Eagle - The Legacy of General Daniel "Chappie" James Jr. 32
• 4: The Shaping of a Public Biography - Richard Allen and the African Methodist Episcopal Church 44
• Part II Cultural Biography *
• 5: Outlaw Women and Toni Morrison's Communities *
• 6: Bessie Head - The Idealist 84
• 7: Working Toward the Betterment of the Community - Elizabeth Ross Haynes 95
• 8: A Black Composer Speaks - William Levi Dawson 110
• 9: Keeping Truth on My Side - Maria Stewart 117
• Part III Oral History and Biography as Teaching Tools 128
• 10: Through Trinbagonian Eyes - Self-Portrait of a Caribbean Country *
• 11: Life Ain'T Been No Crystal Stair - The Rhetoric of Autobiography in Black Female Slave Narratives 151
• 12: Literary Biographical Profiles as Teaching Tools in a University Black History Course 160
• 13: An Intellectual Aesthetic for Black Adult Education - Malcolm X 169
• 14: Dr. James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey of Achimota - Preacher, Scholar, Teacher, and Gentleman 182
• 15: Bothersome Biography - Emmett Jay Scott 197
• About the Editor and Contributors 210
• Index 215

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