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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... taught me at home . And ah , when I first entered public school I went into the fourth grade . they entered me in the fourth grade and I made it from there on . . . . She really taught me . I knew how to read and of course my father ...
... taught me at home . And ah , when I first entered public school I went into the fourth grade . they entered me in the fourth grade and I made it from there on . . . . She really taught me . I knew how to read and of course my father ...
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... taught me how to play cards , he taught me how to make loud noises with cocoa shells . What we used to do is take the shell and boil the shell . And it makes a drink that tastes like cocoa , and looks like tea . And they always had a ...
... taught me how to play cards , he taught me how to make loud noises with cocoa shells . What we used to do is take the shell and boil the shell . And it makes a drink that tastes like cocoa , and looks like tea . And they always had a ...
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... taught school , but he really earned his living as a postman . My mother was just a housewife and a mother . I finished school very early . But at the time I went to high school , there were no public high schools in Townson and so I ...
... taught school , but he really earned his living as a postman . My mother was just a housewife and a mother . I finished school very early . But at the time I went to high school , there were no public high schools in Townson and so I ...
Table des matières
Nine Narratives | 3 |
African | 65 |
Climbing the Ladder of Success from the | 87 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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