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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... resistance and a variety of formidable barriers . These women have demonstrated repeatedly that change requires nothing less than the complete alteration of what we do and believe . My Soul Is My Own is intended as one of the many steps ...
... resistance and a variety of formidable barriers . These women have demonstrated repeatedly that change requires nothing less than the complete alteration of what we do and believe . My Soul Is My Own is intended as one of the many steps ...
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... resistance and self - assertion . Rejecting a Western name in favor of an African one empowers the author to redefine herself in her own terms . Sometimes , however , her own terms are not without cost . Njeri describes attending her ...
... resistance and self - assertion . Rejecting a Western name in favor of an African one empowers the author to redefine herself in her own terms . Sometimes , however , her own terms are not without cost . Njeri describes attending her ...
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... 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 the " study of ...
... 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 the " study of ...
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 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
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