Establishing black positions of critical intervention from the New Negro to Black fire. Negotiating a black aesthetic ; Black writing between integration and separation ; The boundary work of the essay -- Consolidating the idea of black culture as critique in the debate surrounding Native son. Contesting the protest novel paradigm ; The dialogic structure of the essay -- Appropriating a position of critical intervention in the figure of "the white Negro." Positing chromatic authority ; The essay and "the authority of experience" -- Remapping knowledge and renegotiating speaking positions in the desegregation debates. Coming into knowledge under segregation ; Debating the desegregation of schools ; The essay bewteen the public and the private.
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