Moses, Alexander Crummell - A Study Of Civilization And Discontent; Moses, Ed., Destiny And Race - Selected Writings, 1840-1898 - Alexander Crummell; Meier, A White Scholar And A Black Community, 1945-1965 - Essays And Reflections

Abstract

In the tradition of biography, few would question the persistence of a Eurocentric and male bias. With the desirable goal of resurrecting otherwise unrepresented lives, biographers have increasingly presented us with individuals who might have been better known were it not for their gender or race. From this we have learned of the lives of many individuals, T. Thomas Fortune and Robert Vann, to name but two, who have been the subject of biography in recent years. A biography of Jackie Robinson gave us a much richer glimpse of mid-twentieth-century black and white lives. Our understanding of the black community and of America is the better for these efforts.