Stuhr, Rebecca
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Publication Autobiographies by Americans of Color 1995-2000: An Annotated Bibliography(2003-01-01) Stuhr, Rebecca A; Iwabuchi, Deborah JeanThis second of two volumes bringing together as comprehensively as possible, all autobiographical works by Americans of Color covers the years 1995-2000. In this five year period there are nearly 200 more publications than in the previous volume (1980-1994), which spanned fifteen years. 435 of the 674 entries in this volume are by African Americans. The stories of leaving the south and participation in the Civil Rights Movement, which were present in the first volume, are joined by those of musicians, entertainers, entrepreneurs, and athletes, teachers, sharecroppers, politicians, and veterans. There is a greater representation of Japanese American authors in this period of time as those who were incarcerated in the internment camps began to tell their stories. In this five year period, we also begin to see the stories of those who grew up in multiethnic or multiracial families. The introduction to the book provides more details, as well as the methodology we used for identifying the publications included.Publication Autobiographies by Americans of Color 1980-1994: An Annotated Bibliography(1997) Stuhr, Rebecca APublished in 1997, this book sets out to provide a comprehensive annotated listing of all publications falling within the broad definition of autobiography by Americans of Color. This means Americans whose origins are not strictly European. Included in this bibliography are the writings of professional writers, beauticians and barbers, athletes, scholars, civil rights workers, mothers, fathers, daughters, sons, sisters, and brothers. In the introduction I wrote: "We are experiencing, in this decade of the nineties, a political backlash against, an open hostility toward differences of race, socio-economic status, and issues of gender and sexual preference. We need more than ever to understand each other, to have insight into the experiences of all citizens of this country ....These life stories provide all readers with a broad, and perhaps truer sense of U.S. history than it is possible to obtain from a text book or scholarly journal." While there has been much more published on multicultural America since 1997 (see the companion volume 1995-2000 for instance), my comments about the state of our lack of social unity and inability to speak across experiences and cultural backgrounds holds true. The importance of these stories to narrate the history of this country continues.