Document Type
Freshman Seminar Essay
Publication Date
1987
Excerpt
Although many readers respond to The Autobiography of Malcolm X as an overstated polemic, it is possible for us, as representatives of American society, to benefit from Malcolm's life story if we interpret it as a testimony of one man's experience with racism. By following Malcolm's account of his life in the ghetto where he experiences racism, we, the readers, can imagine ourselves in the same situation. We can also imagine ourselves as jurors in a trial. By viewing his life as a trial, we can see one man's attempt to escape the conviction of his color. His testimony is his life. a life through which he experiences racism, a racism that led him to a revelation that sentenced society, a sentence that would release society under the condition that it would attempt to correct its racial problem as a unity.
Recommended Citation
Vinci, Susan J., "Separate but Unified (1987)" (1987). The Valpo Core Reader. 45.
http://scholar.valpo.edu/core_reader/45