BLACK WOMAN HOOD AND THE POLITICS OF FREEDOM

Please answer the questions below and cite from the book:

1. What does term Autobiography mean in an academic study. What themes, or
subjects, or ideas in PART ONE support or clarify the meaning of Autobiography that
you have set up in your response.
2. What for you are two significant events of PART TWO of Angela Davis: An
Autobiography. Explain the significance of these events with analysis of textual
evidence (direct quotes from book).
3. State and examine the relevance of Daviss foreign travels in PART THREE in the
context of their significance to her evolving social and political views.
4. PART FOUR opens with preface by Henry Dumas. What is your interpretation of this
the piece by Henry Dumas and how is this interpretation relevant to the concerns /
themes developed in PART FOUR of the Autobiography.
5. How are African American women portrayed in any part of the Autobiography? Do
you find these portraits a realistic or rather stereotypical depiction of the lives and
experiences of African American women? Referring to evidence in the parts, state
and discuss reasons for your stance.
6. PART FIVE opens with a preface by Wallace Stevens. What is the central theme in
this preface? And how and why is it relevant to the development of the details and
concerns in PART FIVE?
7. What do you think are Angela Daviss views on race relations in America after your
reading of her Autobiography?
8. Do you find Daviss solutions to Americas race problems realistic or not.
Argue any three reasons with references to her Autobiography why you think her
solutions are realistic or not.

Please use this book as the only source:
Davis, Angela. ANGELA DAVIS: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. New York: International Publishers, 1988.

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