Dec 22, 2009

What We Cannot Speak About We Must Pass Over in Silence | What Do I Read Next?

John Edgar Wideman's autobiographical work, Brothers and Keepers (1984), includes a portrait of his brother Robby, who is serving a life prison sentence for a murder committed during a robbery. Wideman seeks to understand how he and his brother could have such disparate lives after a childhood together in the ghetto of Home-wood, Pittsburgh.
Nathan McCall's autobiographical work, Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America (1994), recounts his life as a boy in a black neighborhood, his participation in violent crime, and his imprisonment for armed...