University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Scholarship at Penn Libraries Penn Libraries 2003 Autobiographies by Americans of Color 1995-2000: An Annotated Bibliography Rebecca A. Stuhr Penn Libraries, [email protected] Deborah Jean Iwabuchi [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/library_papers Part of the American Studies Commons, Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Stuhr, R. A., & Iwabuchi, D. J. (2003). Autobiographies by Americans of Color 1995-2000: An Annotated Bibliography. Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/library_papers/82 Stuhr, Rebecca and Deborah Iwabuchi. Autobiographies by Americans of Color, 1995-2000: An Annotated Bibliography. Albany: Whitston Publishing, 2003; Stuhr-Iwabuchi Autobiographies by Americans of Color 1980-1994: An Annotated Bibliography by Rebecca A Stuhr & Deborah Jean Iwabuchi is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Based on a work at http://repository.upenn.edu/library_papers/82/. This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/library_papers/82 For more information, please contact [email protected]. Autobiographies by Americans of Color 1995-2000: An Annotated Bibliography Abstract This 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 ears.y 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 olume,v 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. Keywords annotated bibliography, Autobiographies, Americans of Color, multicultura America, U.S. History Disciplines American Studies | Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority | United States History Comments Stuhr, Rebecca and Deborah Iwabuchi. Autobiographies by Americans of Color, 1995-2000: An Annotated Bibliography. Albany: Whitston Publishing, 2003; Stuhr-Iwabuchi Autobiographies by Americans of Color 1980-1994: An Annotated Bibliography by Rebecca A Stuhr & Deborah Jean Iwabuchi is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Based on a work at http://repository.upenn.edu/library_papers/82/. This book is available at ScholarlyCommons: https://repository.upenn.edu/library_papers/82 Autobiographies by Americans of Color 1995-2000 Autobiographies by Americans of Color 1995-2000: An Annotated Bibliography Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi & Rebecca Stuhr Copyright © 2003 Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi & Rebecca Stuhr Library of Congress Control Number 2002106775 ISBN 0-87875-540-3 Printed in the United States of America Dedication To Manna and Hikari, the two Americans of color at my house. D. I. To my children Helen and Martin, and to my nieces and nephews, Philip Jr., Manna, Julian, Hikari and Victoria. I'm counting on you to make the world a better place! R. S. Contents Acknowledgements...............................................................................vii Introduction to the 1980-1994 Volume..................................................1 Introduction to the 1995-2000 Volume..................................................9 The Bibliography....................................................................................13 Index.......................................................................................................495 Acknowledgements First and foremost, my thanks go to my co-author and sister, Rebecca, who invited me to participate in this project and gave me the opportunity to work with and learn from her profes- sionally. Not only was it great to work with her so "closely" from such a distance, but it gave my life an entirely new facet. I would like to thank Amazon.com, Amazon.co.jp, my local broadband provider, and many other Internet sources. The advances in com- munications and on-line services were what made it possible for me to work on this book from Japan. Not all booksellers will ship over- seas, and my thanks go to my parents for serving as the U.S. addressee and then sending the books on to me, after an initial pre- view. Our parents have always been our biggest supporters, and we look forward to (and depend on) seeing our various publica- tions lovingly lined up on the coffee table on our visits home. I extend my appreciation to Barbara and Russell Tabbert who agreed to read through our manuscript on relatively short notice when we had loved it to the point where we couldn't edit it anymore, and Grinnell College which provided a grant for that purpose. I would also like to thank my husband, Ikuo, my daughters, and best friend Pamela who were involuntary but not unwilling participants in a project that the Japanese might describe as "endoresu (endless)." D. I. Maebashi, Japan I too will begin my acknowledgements by thanking my co- author, Deborah. Deborah was a patient and careful editor of the first annotated bibliography (1980-1994) and was even more patient and careful as a co-author. Deborah moved to Japan while I was still in college. It was a wonderful experience for me to work so closely with her when we live so far apart. My heartfelt thanks go to Christopher McKee, the director of the Grinnell College Libraries for supporting me in this endeavor, and to my wonderful colleagues in the library for their interest in and support of my project. Special thanks go to Leslie Gardner, library assistant for interlibrary loan, who in fewer than three months fulfilled somewhere around 200 interlibrary loan requests for me (I wasn't counting but I did go over my limit!). I thank Grinnell College for my semester sabbatical dur- ing the fall of 2001 and for the generous grant from the college's Committee for the Support of Faculty Scholarship that allowed Deborah and me to take advantage of the exceptional editing skills of Barbara and Russell Tabbert of Grinnell, Iowa. I thank my moth- er and father, Barbara and Walter Stuhr, who have set an example for me both through what they have expressed and through their work and volunteer activities. In both small and large ways my parents have sought to bring about positive change to their com- munity and the larger American society. I'd like to thank my friend Mark for listening to me describe many of the books as I read them, for showing continued interest in this project, proof reading excerpts, and for offering moral support whenever I needed it. Finally, I want to thank my children, Helen and Martin who are always a source of inspiration for me and who were patient and understanding at all of the right times. Helen deserves extra special thanks for carefully checking all of our bibliographic citations against OCLC's Worldcat database. R. S. Grinnell College Grinnell, Iowa Introduction to the 1980-1994 Volume This introduction by Rebecca Stuhr was written for the first book in this series, Autobiographies by Americans of Color 1980-1994. While the actual works cited in it are not in this particular book, the com- ments on methodology, ethnic/racial terms, and the significance of autobi- ographical work fully apply, and thus it is reprinted here. A new intro- duction on the characteristics of this current work is included following. The past twenty-five years have seen a steady increase in the writing of autobiography. The number of autobiographies included in this bibliography which were published during the first five years of the 1990s is exactly twice the number of autobiogra- phies included which were published during the first five years of the 1980s (220 vs. 110). This growing number of personal stories made public encompasses a rich diversity of cultures, personalities, motivations, and, of course, experiences. There has been some scholarly discussion of what constitutes autobiography, and I believe the definition is wide open. Philippe Lejeune writes in "The Autobiographical Contract" that a work can be called an autobiog- raphy if the author of the work, the narrator, and the subject of the work all have the same name, and if the author claims to be telling the truth. He defines autobiography to be "a retrospective prose narrative produced by a real person concerning his own existence, focusing on his individual life, in particular on the development of his personality" (p. 193). Lynn Z. Bloom includes partial and full- length self portraits, dual portraits, group histories, diaries, letters, oral histories, collections of personal narratives, slave narratives, accounts of particular events, and blends of fiction, myth, and personal narrative (p. 171) among the kinds of literature that she would categorize as autobiography in her article "American Autobiography: The Changing Critical