I Hear My People Singing - Voices of African American Princeton

"I Hear My People Singing adds to the growing collection of studies and memoirs of African Americans around elite white colleges and universities. This book reflects on the progressive racial integration of Princeton over the past half century."--David Moltke-Hansen, former president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

About the author

Kathryn (Kitsi) Watterson is a writer whose award-winning books include Women in Prison (Doubleday) and Not by the Sword (Simon & Schuster). She's written for magazines, literary journals, and newspapers, including the New York Times and International Herald Tribune. She teaches creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, where she lives and drums.

Summary

A vivid history of life in Princeton, New Jersey, told through the voices of its African American residents I Hear My People Singing shines a light on a small but historic black neighborhood at the heart of one of the most elite and world-renowned Ivy-League towns--Princeton, New Jersey. The vivid first-person accounts of more than fifty black res

Product details

• Authors: Kathryn Watterson, Watterson Kathryn
• Assisted by: Cornel West (Foreword), West Cornel (Foreword)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9780691227290
• ISBN: 978-0-691-22729-0
• No. of pages: 374
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Local History, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Black & Asian Studies, HISTORY / African American & Black, US Northeast: Mid-Atlantic States, Relating to African American / Black American people