"Closer to the truth than any fact" : memoir, memory, and Jim Crow

"Closer to the truth than any fact" : memoir, memory, and Jim Crow /

Wallach (Georgia College and State Univ.) provides a fascinating look at literary memoirs that deal with US racism against African Americans. She rightly notes that historians have been loathe to accept memoirs as historical documents, since the genre is by nature subjective. However, she persuasive...

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Main Author: Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, 1974-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
African Americans > Social conditions > Historiography.
African Americans > Segregation > Historiography.
Race discrimination > United States > Historiography.
Autobiography > African American authors.
African Americans > Biography > History and criticism.
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