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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Page 167
... identity for women and minorities is formed through connections with others ( 182 ) and that “ community identity permits the rejection of historically diminishing images of self imposed by the dominant culture ; it allows marginalized ...
... identity for women and minorities is formed through connections with others ( 182 ) and that “ community identity permits the rejection of historically diminishing images of self imposed by the dominant culture ; it allows marginalized ...
Page 168
... identity . Her physical resistance to Western customs such as naming and dress represented a deeper rebellion against cultural practices which have continued to enslave African Americans on some level . Njeri's nonlinear autobiography ...
... identity . Her physical resistance to Western customs such as naming and dress represented a deeper rebellion against cultural practices which have continued to enslave African Americans on some level . Njeri's nonlinear autobiography ...
Page 169
... identity and resistance form com- mon strands which braid her story into a patterned whole and at the same time connect her experiences to those of earlier African American women autobiographers . Finally , Joanne Braxton submits that ...
... identity and resistance form com- mon strands which braid her story into a patterned whole and at the same time connect her experiences to those of earlier African American women autobiographers . Finally , Joanne Braxton submits that ...
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 |
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