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[Review Of] Michael Eric Dyson. I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King Jr., Robert L. Perry
[Review Of] Michael Eric Dyson. I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King Jr., Robert L. Perry
Ethnic Studies Review
Michael Eric Dyson's approach to his biography of Dr. Martin Luther King entitled "I May Not Get There With You": The True martin Luther King Jr. is unlike the numerous other biographies of King in that the method he employs in recasting the life of Dr. King is described as "Bio-criticism."
[Review Of] James L. Conyers, Jr. Black Lives: Essays In African American Biography, Calvin E. Harris
[Review Of] James L. Conyers, Jr. Black Lives: Essays In African American Biography, Calvin E. Harris
Ethnic Studies Review
These biographical profiles of well-known and not so well-known African Americans are presented from an Afrocentric perspective. At least one essay is about a South African Black, "Bessie Head: The Idealist" by Owen G. Mordaunt. Drawing from the writings of Maulana Karenga, Conyers sets forth the Afrocentric framework as presented in this anthology: The Afro-American national community is in fact a unity-in-itself, a community of people with a common and distinguishing history (kinship in time and space; a common and distinguishing culture (kinship in life changes and activities); and a common and distinguishing collective self-consciousness...(10).