Download or read book Troubling Beginnings written by Maurice Stevens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary and creative study examines how African American culture is presented in American films and other media, and is a provocative re-reading of the historiography of black culture. The author examines and interprets a number of cultural texts deriving memory as interpreted by Freud and by Franz Fanon, mixed with Black Liberation Theology and Islamic mysticism.