{"product_id":"autobiography-as-activism-margo-v-perkins-9781578062645","title":"Autobiography as Activism: Three Black Women of the Sixties","description":"Angela Davis, Assata Shakur (a.k.a. JoAnne Chesimard), and Elaine Brown are the only women activists of the Black Power movement who have published book-length autobiographies. In bearing witness to that era, these militant newsmakers wrote in part to educate and to mobilize their anticipated readers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this way, Davis's \u003ci\u003eAngela Davis: An Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e (1974), Shakur's \u003ci\u003eAssata\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), and Brown's \u003ci\u003eA Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story\u003c\/i\u003e (1992) can all be read as extensions of the writers' political activism during the 1960s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Margo V. Perkins's critical analysis of their books is less a history of the movement (or of women's involvement in it) than an exploration of the politics of storytelling for activists who choose to write their lives. Perkins examines how activists use autobiography to connect their lives to those of other activists across historical periods, to emphasize the link between the personal and the political, and to construct an alternative history that challenges dominant or conventional ways of knowing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The histories constructed by these three women call attention to the experiences of women in revolutionary struggle, particularly to the ways their experiences have differed from men's. The women's stories are told from different perspectives and provide different insights into a movement that has been much studied from the masculine perspective. At times they fill in, complement, challenge, or converse with the stories told by their male counterparts, and in doing so, hint at how the present and future can be made less catastrophic because of women's involvement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The multiple complexities of the Black Power movement become evident in reading these women's narratives against each other as well as against the sometimes strikingly different accounts of their male counterparts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As Davis, Shakur, and Brown recount events in their lives, they dispute mainstream assumptions about race, class, and gender and reveal how the Black Power struggle profoundly shaped their respective identities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margo V. Perkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1578062640\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781578062645\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/10\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.97h x 5.91w x 0.52d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2000 pg. 1632","brand":"Margo V. Perkins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980123013375,"sku":"9781578062645","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_de3c056d-7481-4fd1-b63c-9ac09a20d509.jpg?v=1683248529","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/autobiography-as-activism-margo-v-perkins-9781578062645","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}