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Introduction: "unexamined lives" : the study of African American journalism autobiography

Journalism : memory, history, and context

Form, function, and the public sphere in Jill Nelson's Volunteer slavery

Volunteer slavery and the speech aspects of the autobiographical manifesto

Surveillance and performance in Nathan McCall's Makes me wanna holler

Jake Lamar, Patricia Raybon, and the autobiographical manifesto form

Memoir and the African American newsroom experience : themes and considerations

Conclusion: the synergy between race, class, gender, and profession in African American journalists' autobiographies.

American prose literature > African American authors > History and criticism.

African American authors > Biography > History and criticism.

African American journalists > Biography > History and criticism.

Autobiography > African American authors.

African American authors > Intellectual life.