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Alex Haley

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Noun1.Alex Haley - United States writer and Afro-American who wrote a fictionalized account of tracing his family roots back to Africa (1921-1992)


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The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley, by Attallah Shabazz (foreword), Alex Haley (interviewer), Malcolm X (primary contributor), Ballantine, 1987
In "Rootlessness--Sugar Hill, A Heuristic Model" (2002), Arceneaux's tableau included sculpture as well as drawings and evoked the practice of slavery in the US via iconic characters from the miniseries Roots, based on the novel by Alex Haley.
Instead, Lyne argues, the exculpatory binary allows those he considers "political conservatives" like Spike Lee and Alex Haley to appear as radicals even when the story of Malcolm X is read "not as a fulcrum for mass activism but rather as a bible for personal improvement" (55).
 
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