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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... letters exchanged between Louisa and her mother ( since both women were illiterate , various third parties wrote ... letter . . . . ' " From this point on , Louisa's narration ' becomes less frequent until it is completely absent in ...
... letters exchanged between Louisa and her mother ( since both women were illiterate , various third parties wrote ... letter . . . . ' " From this point on , Louisa's narration ' becomes less frequent until it is completely absent in ...
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... letters to and from her mother who also was illiterate . These precious documents were written and read by others : Q ... letter is , of course , written by some white person , and is printed exactly as it is written . " ( 32 ) It was no ...
... letters to and from her mother who also was illiterate . These precious documents were written and read by others : Q ... letter is , of course , written by some white person , and is printed exactly as it is written . " ( 32 ) It was no ...
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... letter that she wrote to her folks back home : I was forty years old when I had that vision , but I said , I wrote home to my folks and I said , " You know they tell me that life begins at forty and I have yet begun to live . I'm just ...
... letter that she wrote to her folks back home : I was forty years old when I had that vision , but I said , I wrote home to my folks and I said , " You know they tell me that life begins at forty and I have yet begun to live . I'm just ...
Table des matières
Nine Narratives | 3 |
African | 65 |
Climbing the Ladder of Success from the | 87 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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