The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
- First Published: 1965
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: The 1920’s to the mid-1960’s
- Setting: The United States, Africa, and Mecca
- Principal Characters: Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Current events, Memory, Politics, Human rights, Islam, Leadership, Revolutions
- Locales: Boston, MA, Detroit, MI, Lansing, MI, New York
Form and Content
In The Autobiography of Malcolm X, written in conjunction with Alex Haley, Malcolm X reveals his early life as a big-city hustler, defends his view of the white man as “the devil” and his conversion to Islam, and explains his eventual abandonment of the black separatist movement (which in its most extreme mode called for the United States Congress to grant land for a black state) in favor of a “Human Family,” a “Human Society” united under the one God and the one moral code of Islam. His purpose, simply put, was to invoke social change in...
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