Letter/Communication
New plot twists in the Black American narrative
The American scholar, Vol.77(4), pp.6-6
Autumn 2008
Abstract
I would like to add a few qualifiers to Charles Johnson's timely essay, "The End of the Black American Narrative," in the Summer 2008 issue.
Mainstream history professors, students of the civil rights movement, and historians of enslavement shifted decades ago from the "victimization narrative" described by Johnson. In fact, so far is the distance historians have traveled along this line that it calls into question Johnson's basic premise that it is time for a new black narratiye. We've had a "new" black narrative for at least 20 years, and this narrative does not have victimization as its climax, at least not the melodramatic victimization that Johnson decries. [1st paragraphs]
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- Title
- New plot twists in the Black American narrative
- Creators
- Robert Anthony Watts - Drexel University, English and Philosophy
- Publication Details
- The American scholar, Vol.77(4), pp.6-6
- Publisher
- The Phi Beta Kappa Society
- Number of pages
- 1
- Resource Type
- Letter/Communication
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- English and Philosophy
- Identifiers
- 991021967071304721