Black Autobiography: The Identity Quest
FAIN: FA-11686-77
George E. Kent
University of Chicago (Chicago, IL 60637-5418)
To study the quest for identity and order in black autobiography and autobiographical writings, from 1789 to 1975. The black personality confronts on the one hand, the institutions of a free society and on the other the institution of slavery; this creates the double-consciousness of Blacks, a problem with which they had to deal in their autobiographical efforts.