My Soul is My Own: Oral Narratives of African American Women in the ProfessionsPresents 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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And my father told me that it wouldn't be , but he taught me , and I was very young , about five years old , sitting on my porch , trying to do something here . I was contorting myself . And daddy came home , promptly , always at 5:00 ...
And my father told me that it wouldn't be , but he taught me , and I was very young , about five years old , sitting on my porch , trying to do something here . I was contorting myself . And daddy came home , promptly , always at 5:00 ...
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Trying , you know , I was contorting myself . And my daddy came home promptly . Always at five o'clock . He would come home for dinner . We had a routine with that . Daddy always was home ( on time ) . I used to run down the street to ...
Trying , you know , I was contorting myself . And my daddy came home promptly . Always at five o'clock . He would come home for dinner . We had a routine with that . Daddy always was home ( on time ) . I used to run down the street to ...
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From her position , the narrator perceived her situation ( going on to college after graduation from high school ) as “ normal , but I was trying to establish that it was unusual for most women , especially African Americans , to attend ...
From her position , the narrator perceived her situation ( going on to college after graduation from high school ) as “ normal , but I was trying to establish that it was unusual for most women , especially African Americans , to attend ...
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Nine Narratives | 3 |
African | 65 |
Climbing the Ladder of Success from the | 87 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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activities African American women answer appears asked authority autobiography became become beginning brother called career cause course culture daddy didn't discuss early especially example experience fact father felt finished friends girl give grade graduated guess happened high school important interesting interview kind knew language later learned lives look mean mother narrative narrator narrator's never oral parents particular Phi Beta Kappa play position problem question race racism reason remember reported sister situation slave social sometimes sort speak speech story talk teacher teaching tell that's things thought told took town trying voice whole woman writing written young
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| Titre | My Soul is My Own: Oral Narratives of African American Women in the Professions My Soul is My Own: Oral Narratives of African American Women in the Professions, Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis |
| Auteur | Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis |
| Éditeur | Routledge, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0415905591, 9780415905596 |
| Longueur | 213 pages |
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