Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 2012
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Auto/Biography Studies
Abstract
Matthew Henson's 1912 memoir, A Negro Explorer at the North Pole, seems to adopt a vindicationist discourse of work, merit, and recognition that accords with Booker T. Washington's vision for racial progress, but Henson's narrative actually demonstrates how such a discourse inadequately resolves the complex tangle of race, masculinity, and citizenship during the Jim Crow era.
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Anthony S. Foy.
(2012).
"Matthew Henson And The Antinomies Of Racial Uplift".
Auto/Biography Studies.
Volume 27,
Issue 1.
19-44.
DOI: 10.1353/abs.2012.0001
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-english-lit/104
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This work was originally published in: (2012). a/b: AutoBiography Studies. Volume 27, Issue 1. 19-44. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08989575.2012.10815369