Ever since Frederick Douglass forged the story of his escape from slavery into a powerful abolitionist message, black writers such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Richard Wright and Malcolm X have wielded their autobiographies like emancipating swords. Now that weapon has been taken up by two black journalists, Nathan McCall and Brent Staples, each of whom provides a soul- searing account of his uneasy journey from the segregated world of blacks to the token-integrated fringe of the white world.
Together, these life stories provide an unsettling account of the human consequences of an American tragedy: the widening division between blacks and whites...
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