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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... Later , when I discovered a photograph of Nannie as a young woman , I cried because she was so beautiful , and I had only known her as a wise old woman , crippled with arthritis . It never occurred to me that she had been young and ...
... Later , when I discovered a photograph of Nannie as a young woman , I cried because she was so beautiful , and I had only known her as a wise old woman , crippled with arthritis . It never occurred to me that she had been young and ...
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... later that he had said that she could've come to look after him if she hadn't been at school and I don't know whether that had any . something to do . . . with making her stop or what it was that got in the way but something apparently ...
... later that he had said that she could've come to look after him if she hadn't been at school and I don't know whether that had any . something to do . . . with making her stop or what it was that got in the way but something apparently ...
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... later on she wrote poetry and she did a lot of different things : painted , she was a very talented lady really and , and in her later years in her 70s and 80s she um , she used to belong to the senior citizens club and she used to read ...
... later on she wrote poetry and she did a lot of different things : painted , she was a very talented lady really and , and in her later years in her 70s and 80s she um , she used to belong to the senior citizens club and she used to read ...
Table des matières
Nine Narratives | 3 |
African | 65 |
Climbing the Ladder of Success from the | 87 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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