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 66
... racial uplift continued to be a dominant philosophy of the African American community well into the twentieth ... race. Thus, it was no surprise that several women reported that college education was a family tradition. Harriet, a ...
... racial uplift continued to be a dominant philosophy of the African American community well into the twentieth ... race. Thus, it was no surprise that several women reported that college education was a family tradition. Harriet, a ...
Page 74
... race shifted from emphasis on group support to an unequal pressure on women to serve rather than to lead . Specifically , Perkins interpreted this change in attitude to mean that African American women could best uplift the race by ...
... race shifted from emphasis on group support to an unequal pressure on women to serve rather than to lead . Specifically , Perkins interpreted this change in attitude to mean that African American women could best uplift the race by ...
Page 184
... racial violence , tended to omit certain adjectives and only indirectly referred to race : A : I was on my way to Mississippi again and um ( pause ) I had to change buses ( pause ) I never liked Alabama and I had to change buses in ...
... racial violence , tended to omit certain adjectives and only indirectly referred to race : A : I was on my way to Mississippi again and um ( pause ) I had to change buses ( pause ) I never liked Alabama and I had to change buses in ...
Table des matières
Nine Narratives | 3 |
African | 65 |
Climbing the Ladder of Success from the | 87 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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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