Margo V Perkins. Autobiography as A...

Margo V Perkins. Autobiography as Activism: Three Black Women of the Sixties. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2000 161 pp ISBN 1-578-06264-0 $1800

Margo V Perkins's Autobiography as Activism: Three Black Women of the Sixties is an worthy of great praise study of the autobiographies of Angela Davis (Angela Davis: An Autobiography), Elaine Brown (A Taste of Power), and Assata Shakur (Assata). Perkins perceptively analyzes the problematic nature of autobiography as a genre the final causes of political autobiography and its link to resistance literature (for example, the "slave" or