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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... past like no other adult I knew . Occasionally she would tell a story about my grandfather , her youngest son , or about a distant relative who , in my child's eyes , seemed larger than life . Nannie was well into her 70's in those days ...
... past like no other adult I knew . Occasionally she would tell a story about my grandfather , her youngest son , or about a distant relative who , in my child's eyes , seemed larger than life . Nannie was well into her 70's in those days ...
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... past tense . However , in the middle of the segment , the voice switches to present tense , " we're going out for everything , " which then allows the narrator to speak from inside of the action . When Elmira switches back to past tense ...
... past tense . However , in the middle of the segment , the voice switches to present tense , " we're going out for everything , " which then allows the narrator to speak from inside of the action . When Elmira switches back to past tense ...
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... past conversation . The extent of its deviation from the past is almost impossible to measure . Aside from audio or video recording ( or time travel ) , we will not be able to accurately reconstruct most past speech events verbatim ...
... past conversation . The extent of its deviation from the past is almost impossible to measure . Aside from audio or video recording ( or time travel ) , we will not be able to accurately reconstruct most past speech events verbatim ...
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