My Soul is My Own: Oral Narratives of African American Women in the ProfessionsRoutledge, 1993 - 213 pages Presents the lives of early 20th-century African-American women in a unique context - their own words. The women themselves are as extraordinary as the language they use to describe their experiences, at home, university and work. |
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... Christian school when this happened . One day she [ my friend Mary ] came to school and told me she couldn't play with me any longer . I was in about the first grade , and I said , well why can't you play with me ? So she took my hand ...
... Christian school when this happened . One day she [ my friend Mary ] came to school and told me she couldn't play with me any longer . I was in about the first grade , and I said , well why can't you play with me ? So she took my hand ...
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... Christian standing and “ lady - like bear- ing " even though the slavery experience could be observed in her " menial - like diffidence , her plantation expression and pronuncia- tion , her inability to read or write . . . " ( 5 ) ...
... Christian standing and “ lady - like bear- ing " even though the slavery experience could be observed in her " menial - like diffidence , her plantation expression and pronuncia- tion , her inability to read or write . . . " ( 5 ) ...
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... Christian , Barbara . " Trajectories of Self - Definition : Placing Contemporary Afro - American Women's Fiction . " In Conjuring : Black Women , Fic- tion , and Literary Tradition . eds . , Marjorie Pryse and Hortense Spillers ...
... Christian , Barbara . " Trajectories of Self - Definition : Placing Contemporary Afro - American Women's Fiction . " In Conjuring : Black Women , Fic- tion , and Literary Tradition . eds . , Marjorie Pryse and Hortense Spillers ...
Table des matières
Nine Narratives | 3 |
African | 65 |
Climbing the Ladder of Success from the | 87 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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