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HAP 99 - American Nightmare - Malcolm X

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

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X's Autobiography

X was often referred to as the angriest negro in america, a description he did not deny. In march nine, 63, x was interviewed on the city desk television show in chicago. This encounter with several white journalists is quite typical of his mediate appearances. Yet the autobiography is much more than a series of reflections on racial oppression and a call to rise up against it. It is to some extent, less like, say, david walker's appeal, and more like augustine's confessions,. whose protagonist is guided by god from a condition of mental death to religious rebirth.

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