Living With Jim Crow - African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South

Zusatztext "An indispensible contribution to African American and women s history. Essential." - CHOICE Informationen zum Autor ANNE VALK is Associate Director for Programs of the John Nicholas Brown Centre, Brown University, USA.   LESLIE BROWN is Assistant Professor of History at Williams College, USA, and the author of Upbuilding Black Durham . Klappentext Using first-person narratives collected through oral history interviews, this groundbreaking book collects black women's memories of their public and private lives during the period of legal segregation in the American South. Zusammenfassung Using first-person narratives collected through oral history interviews! this groundbreaking book collects black women's memories of their public and private lives during the period of legal segregation in the American South. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: We Did Well With What We Had: Remembering Black Life behind the Veil Kin to Everybody: Childhood Crossing Over into another World: Personal Relationships across the Lifespan You are all under Bondage, which is True: Working Lives A Society Totally our Own: Institutional and Cultural Life in Black Communities I Like to Get Something Done: Fighting for Social and Political Change

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Introduction: We Did Well With What We Had: Remembering Black Life behind the Veil Kin to Everybody: Childhood Crossing Over into another World: Personal Relationships across the Lifespan You are all under Bondage, which is True: Working Lives A Society Totally our Own: Institutional and Cultural Life in Black Communities I Like to Get Something Done: Fighting for Social and Political Change

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"An indispensible contribution to African American and women s history. Essential." - CHOICE

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• Authors: Brown, L Brown, L. Brown, Leslie Brown, Leslie Valk Brown, A Valk, A. Valk, Anne Valk, Anne M. Valk
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2011
• EAN: 9780230621527
• ISBN: 978-0-230-62152-7
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History; Palgrave Studies in Oral Histo; Palgrave Studies in Oral History; Palgrave Studies in Oral Histo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; B, Cultural History, History, Social History, Social & cultural history, Clinical psychology, History of the Americas, History, Modern, Civilization—History, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, America—History, United States—History, US History