Part 27 (1/2)
”Deprived of access to literacy”: Gates, Bearing Witness Bearing Witness, p. 4.
He reads histories by Will Durant: Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 178.
In Soul on Ice Soul on Ice: Cleaver, Soul on Ice Soul on Ice, p. 31.
Claude Brown told an audience: Gates, Bearing Witness Bearing Witness, p. 4.
Even Sammy Davis, Jr.: Davis, Yes I Can Yes I Can, p. 63.
”Barack is who he says he is”: Wolffe, Renegade Renegade, p. 156.
He signals his awareness: Obama, Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father, p. xvi.
While the book is based on his journals: Ibid., p. xvii.
W. E. B. DuBois set a standard: Du Bois, The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois, p. 12.
When the young Frederick Dougla.s.s: Dougla.s.s, Autobiographies Autobiographies, p. 60.
”Of my ancestry”: Was.h.i.+ngton, Up from Slavery Up from Slavery, p. 1.
Obama's reading of black memoirists: Obama, Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father, p. 85.
”His repeated acts of self-creation”: Ibid., p. 86.
Obama was disturbed: Ibid.
”We're all black to the white man”: Malcolm X, Autobiography of Malcolm X Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 206.
Obama, who has been raised: Obama, Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father, p. 286.
As Obama writes: Obama, Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father, p. xvi.
Veteran residents of the building: Jennifer 8 Lee, New York Times Times, January 30, 2008.
Obama places himself: Obama, Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father, p. 3.
His ”kindred spirit”: Ibid., p. 5.
As he is cooking his eggs: Ibid.
When Obama writes a new preface: Ibid., p. xi.
When he is writing about: Ibid., p. 18.
His mother, Ann: Ibid., p. 20.
”Racism was part of that past”: Ibid., p. 21.
Obama is also wise to Hawaii: Ibid., p. 23.
In Chapter 2 Chapter 2, he recalls a day: Ibid., p. 28.
During the Presidential campaign: Kirsten Scharnberg and Kim Barker, Chicago Tribune Tribune, March 25, 2007.
The scene cannot help: Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 54.
”My mother's confidence”: Obama, Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father, p. 50.
When they would talk: Ibid., p. 80.
Poignantly, Obama: Ibid., p. xv.
”We were in G.o.dd.a.m.ned Hawaii”: Ibid., p. 82.
”As it was, I learned to slip”: Ibid.
Chapter 5, which covers: Ibid., p. 92.
He is reminded again: Ibid., p. 99.
The role model who shocks: Ibid., p. 104.
”Then, as if the sight”: Ibid., p. 178.
”I tried to imagine”: Ibid., p. 183.
but he worries: Ibid., p. 203.
In New York, he tells us: Ibid., p. 210.
As he sits in the pews: Ibid., p. 294.
He is a ”Westerner”: Ibid., p. 301.
On the road between Madrid: Ibid., p. 303.
”For the first time in my life”: Ibid., p. 305.
”All of this while a steady procession”: Ibid., p. 311.
When she tells a story: Ibid., p. 215.
”I felt as if my world”: Ibid., p. 220.