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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... expression and pronuncia- tion , her inability to read or write . . . " ( 5 ) . According to Mattison , these qualities assured readers that Louisa Piquet was upright , decent , and truthful . Notwithstanding , his focus on skin color ...
... expression and pronuncia- tion , her inability to read or write . . . " ( 5 ) . According to Mattison , these qualities assured readers that Louisa Piquet was upright , decent , and truthful . Notwithstanding , his focus on skin color ...
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... expression and pronunciation " ( 5 ) . However , when one reads the actual text , there are relatively few southern black English features than would have been predicted from the editor's previous testimony : “ She have long hair , but ...
... expression and pronunciation " ( 5 ) . However , when one reads the actual text , there are relatively few southern black English features than would have been predicted from the editor's previous testimony : “ She have long hair , but ...
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... expression and long pauses between words ) , and once I recognized this , I asked that she verbalize her thoughts : .. A : But I remember my aunt saying to me when I got ready to go to college . She persuaded me to go into teaching ...
... expression and long pauses between words ) , and once I recognized this , I asked that she verbalize her thoughts : .. A : But I remember my aunt saying to me when I got ready to go to college . She persuaded me to go into teaching ...
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