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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... thing , two smart things that I did . I picked the right parents who had me born in the right place . The only two things I've done right in my life . And uh , uh I'm an only child . Uh both , of them although they didn't know each ...
... thing , two smart things that I did . I picked the right parents who had me born in the right place . The only two things I've done right in my life . And uh , uh I'm an only child . Uh both , of them although they didn't know each ...
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... thing . . . . But you have to remember that at time Wash- ington was still a very segregated city . . . . The interesting thing about , prejudice , ah some of the ridiculous things that happened . . . a chain of department stores , very ...
... thing . . . . But you have to remember that at time Wash- ington was still a very segregated city . . . . The interesting thing about , prejudice , ah some of the ridiculous things that happened . . . a chain of department stores , very ...
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... things . But anyway , there was that part I couldn't skip over . . . the other thing that made it easier to write about things , and very truthfully about the way they were , there are so many young people who don't know what in the ...
... things . But anyway , there was that part I couldn't skip over . . . the other thing that made it easier to write about things , and very truthfully about the way they were , there are so many young people who don't know what in the ...
Table des matières
Nine Narratives | 3 |
African | 65 |
Climbing the Ladder of Success from the | 87 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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