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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... beginning when we got to the training center . We were all in there together , and they had us [ black women ] sit in some special separate chairs , and then called everybody else by their names . You know , it seemed that they could of ...
... beginning when we got to the training center . We were all in there together , and they had us [ black women ] sit in some special separate chairs , and then called everybody else by their names . You know , it seemed that they could of ...
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... beginning of the sixteenth century , Europeans had wondered aloud whether or not the African " species of men , ” . . . could ever create formal literature , could ever master " the arts and sciences . " If they could , the argument ran ...
... beginning of the sixteenth century , Europeans had wondered aloud whether or not the African " species of men , ” . . . could ever create formal literature , could ever master " the arts and sciences . " If they could , the argument ran ...
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... beginning . " So I went back to school and finished high school . ( 4 : 1 , p . 6 ) In this instance , the beginning of reported speech is marked by said , as if it were actual dialogue . The narrator easily could have used wrote and I ...
... beginning . " So I went back to school and finished high school . ( 4 : 1 , p . 6 ) In this instance , the beginning of reported speech is marked by said , as if it were actual dialogue . The narrator easily could have used wrote and I ...
Table des matières
Nine Narratives | 3 |
African | 65 |
Climbing the Ladder of Success from the | 87 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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My Soul is My Own: Oral Narratives of African American Women in the Professions Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis Aucun aperçu disponible - 1993 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
activities African American students African American women asked autobiography black women brother called campus career club collaborative course culture discrimination Dust Tracks early Elmira embedding example experience father felt finished high school friends gender girl gonna grade graduated grandfather grandmother guess happened Harriet Harriet Jacobs Harriet Wilson Henry Louis Gates Hurston's important interesting interview kind knew language law school lives Louisa male married Mattison mean mother narrator Nellie McKay never oral narrative parents Pauli Murray pause Phi Beta Kappa position question race racism redneck remember reported speech Schomburg Library segment sexism sister slave narratives slavery social Spanish speak story talk taught teacher teaching tell things thought tion told took town tradition trying woman words writing written Yeah York young Zora