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The Black Biographer's Burden.
Paul Robeson Jr. interprets the controversial legacy of the towering
20th-century artist and intellectual who was also a black man--and his father, too The biographer's relationship to his subject is always tricky. For black writers exploring the lives of famous black people, there is added pressure. When a black writer exposes a black leader s life in all its glory--including so-called dirty laundry--a nationwide choir of black opinion is quick to identify a Judas. The critics never point to the subject's actual human failings. Instead they point to the poison pen which they say potentially betrays the progressive struggle for black advancement in Americ...See the full content of this document
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