The article discusses two books; "With Malcolm X in Africa, England, and the Caribbean," by Jan Carew; "Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X," By Michael Eric Dyson. Carew's scholarly memoir of a two-day interview with Black Muslim Elijah Muhammad Malcolm in London weeks comes before his murder and Dyson's culled partly from essays published previously in journals "Social Text," "Tikkun," and "Christian Century."
Focuses on the works of Jan Carew concerning the construction of Canadian nationalist identity and production of plays about the Black and Caribbean experience through the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
