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Offers some answers to the question of Black survival. This book features the conversations between the author and the older Black women whose accounts inform us that while life in North Carolina and in the United States, has been hard for the Black woman (and man and child) it can be borne with dignity, and it can be changed by hope.
Sommario
ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1. Precious Lord, Take My Hand 2. One Dime Blues 3. Green Animals around the Moon 4. mid*wife 5. Cool Buttermilk, Brown Gravy, and No Chickens under the House: A Dream 6. Esse Quam Videri 7. In This Dark World and Wide 8. Sisters 9. Taking Low to No One 10. Ivory Towers and No Sidewalks 11. Seeing a Thing Through 12. As Long as You Give Us the Equal 13. A Woman on Wall Street 14. Mademoiselle 15. "...For Peace and Justice, Freedom and Dignity for All People" 16. You Follow Me? 17. I Was Glad When They Said unto Me, "We Will Go into the House of the Lord" 18. When the Sun Goes Down, You're in a Valley like This, and You Can Look Up to the Top and See the Sunrise 19. The Little Country Church 20. The World Can't Take It Away Epilogue
Info autore
Emily Herring Wison is a writer in Wonston-Salem, North Carolina. She is working with Margaret Supplee Smith on a history of women in North Carolina.
Riassunto
Contains stories of older black women. Containing photographs of these women, this title intends to offer some answers to the question of Black survival.
