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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... status quo and excludes knowledge essential to the well - being of society as a whole . As a case in point , most studies of women's and African Ameri- can's speech have tended to focus on dominant groups : white women and African ...
... status quo and excludes knowledge essential to the well - being of society as a whole . As a case in point , most studies of women's and African Ameri- can's speech have tended to focus on dominant groups : white women and African ...
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... status , was yet another unfair regulation . Thus , progress was slow and not without cost . In addi- tion , making some sort of housing available exclusively for African American men effectively disenfranchised African American women ...
... status , was yet another unfair regulation . Thus , progress was slow and not without cost . In addi- tion , making some sort of housing available exclusively for African American men effectively disenfranchised African American women ...
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... status of writing . " They suggest that " writing is both empowering ( a neces- sary , effective way of storing and manipulating knowledge ) and corrupting ( a loss of immediacy . . . of the presence and intimacy of speech ) " ( 118 ) ...
... status of writing . " They suggest that " writing is both empowering ( a neces- sary , effective way of storing and manipulating knowledge ) and corrupting ( a loss of immediacy . . . of the presence and intimacy of speech ) " ( 118 ) ...
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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