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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... fiction that conceals their power and importance . They have played major roles in all of American culture and continue to do so in spite of resistance and a variety of formidable barriers . These women have demonstrated repeatedly that ...
... fiction that conceals their power and importance . They have played major roles in all of American culture and continue to do so in spite of resistance and a variety of formidable barriers . These women have demonstrated repeatedly that ...
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... fiction . I am aware that some of my adventures may seem incredible ; but they are , nevertheless , strictly true . . . I have concealed the names of places , and given persons fictitious names . I have no motive for secrecy on my own ...
... fiction . I am aware that some of my adventures may seem incredible ; but they are , nevertheless , strictly true . . . I have concealed the names of places , and given persons fictitious names . I have no motive for secrecy on my own ...
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... Fiction . " In Conjuring : Black Women , Fic- tion , and Literary Tradition . eds . , Marjorie Pryse and Hortense Spillers . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1985 . Clifford , James and George Marcus , eds . Writing Culture ...
... Fiction . " In Conjuring : Black Women , Fic- tion , and Literary Tradition . eds . , Marjorie Pryse and Hortense Spillers . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1985 . Clifford , James and George Marcus , eds . Writing Culture ...
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 |
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