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This 4 page paper presents a review of this book as it relates to racism and racial belief systems of the day. The author centers on major transitional points in the life of Malcolm X to show how he encountered societal and cultural racism from whites as well as within the Nation of Islam.
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In his autobiography/biography, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the activist and other prominent black authorities, including author Alex Haley, created a historical account of the life of Malcolm X within
the perspective of the racist back drop of 1960s America. By presenting the pivotal points in Malcolm Xs life and the impact that racism had on these transitions, the
authors were able to promote and understanding of the enormous difficulties that promoted racial divisions. Malcolm X was not born to prominent black parents. Instead, his parents
struggled to support their large family, and the murder of his father caused his mother to relinquish guardianship of her eleven children into the custody of the state of Michigan.
His placement in boarding homes by welfare agencies left him resentful of the white governmental structures that destroyed his family. This was the beginning of Malcolm Xs racial
self-identification, and his self-created division between himself and whites. He struggled for a number of years to discover his role in life. He moved to Boston to live
with relatives and got his first big city perspective on racial division. Roxbury, where he stayed with relatives, was an area where a number of black families lived.
At first, Malcolm X viewed the living conditions in Roxbury as favorable, and perceived a shift in the social order towards more equal treatment of blacks. It was
not long before he came to realize that the black families in Roxbury were no different from the what he perceived as successful blacks of Lansing. These blacks showed an
outward sense of pride and dignity, considering themselves incomparably cultured and esteemed by others. In reality, these urban blacks were simply attempting to "imitate white people" (Haley 40), with
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