Stepto writes, "Douglass's writings of 150 years ago have much to offer, especially to someone with the issues Obama has wrestled with. Douglass's autobiography is preeminently about raising himself and becoming a black man in America, most certainly while living with no one who 'seemed to know exactly what that meant.'" A Home Elsewhere (2010)How does this book inform the search for identity in the American and African American literary traditions?
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