Their Malcolm, My Problem (Singles Classic)

Their Malcolm, My Problem (Singles Classic)

When my ten-year-old daughter came home from school, she was surprised to find me home, and more surprised to find me visibly upset.

â€œWhatâ€™s wrong?â€ she asked.

â€œThe American Negro,â€ I began sarcastically, as she made herself a snack, â€œgoes through periodic bouts of dementia when he romantically proclaims himself an African, lost from his brothers and sisters. These tides of benighted nationalism come and go, but this time it seems particularly acute.â€ By now my voice had become strident, my rage nearly out of control.

In Their Malcolm, My Problem, Gerald Early examines his complicatedâ€”and deeply personalâ€”views of Malcolm X, from the ways in which the political leaderâ€™s writings defined Earlyâ€™s concept of â€œblacknessâ€ as a kid, to how they may have distorted them as an adult.

Their Malcolm, My Problem was originally published in Harperâ€™s, December 1992.

Cover design by Adil Dara.
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-07-18
Format Kindle eBook

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