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Author: Sara Brooks Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393308662 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 234
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"A profoundly poignant yet triumphant book, a recreation by an Alabama-born black of her struggle against racism and poverty while striving for the common dream of Americans. . . . {A} marvelously earthy 'narrative.'. . . Her memoir is the stuff of human pride made memorable in raw, homely vernacular".--Publishers Weekly.
Author: Sara Brooks Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393308662 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 234
Book Description
"A profoundly poignant yet triumphant book, a recreation by an Alabama-born black of her struggle against racism and poverty while striving for the common dream of Americans. . . . {A} marvelously earthy 'narrative.'. . . Her memoir is the stuff of human pride made memorable in raw, homely vernacular".--Publishers Weekly.
Author: Sara Brooks Publisher: W. W. Norton ISBN: Category : African American women Languages : en Pages : 232
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"A profoundly poignant yet triumphant book, a recreation by an Alabama-born black of her struggle against racism and poverty while striving for the common dream of Americans. . . . {A} marvelously earthy 'narrative.'. . . Her memoir is the stuff of human pride made memorable in raw, homely vernacular".--Publishers Weekly.
Author: Kimberley Louise Phillips Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 9780252067938 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 364
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Examines the experiences and activities of African-Americans in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1915 through 1945, discussing migration, the labor market, organized labor, community, and more.
Author: Sara Brooks Publisher: ISBN: 9780962976605 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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You May Plow Here is the first-person narrative of Sara Brooks, an African American woman, the daughter of a freeholder, a migrant to the North. Born in 1911, Sara Brooks was raised alongside seventeen other dependents by her father and stepmother on a fifty-three-acre farm in Alabama's Black Belt. Accompanying the narrative are black & white photographs of vestiges of mule-farming taken by editor Thordis Simonsen in the 1970s and her essay introduction to the photographs, Images in Black and White.
Author: Carroll Pursell Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262661993 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 417
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Scholars working at the intersection of African-American history and the history of technology are redefining the idea of technology to include the work of the skilled artisan and the ingenuity of the self-taught inventor. Although denied access through most of American history to many new technologies and to the privileged education of the engineer, African-Americans have been engaged with a range of technologies, as makers and as users, since the colonial era. A Hammer in Their Hands (the title comes from the famous song about John Henry, "the steel-driving man" who beat the steam drill) collects newspaper and magazine articles, advertisements for runaway slaves, letters, folklore, excerpts from biography and fiction, legal patents, protest pamphlets, and other primary sources to document the technological achievements of African-Americans. Included in this rich and varied collection are a letter from Cotton Mather describing an early method of smallpox inoculation brought from Africa by a slave; selections from Frederick Douglass's autobiography and Uncle Tom's Cabin; the Confederate Patent Act, which barred slaves from holding patents; articles from 1904 by Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois, debating the issue of industrial education for African-Americans; a 1924 article from Negro World, "Automobiles and Jim Crow Regulations"; a photograph of an all-black World War II combat squadron; and a 1998 presidential executive order on environmental justice. A Hammer in Their Hands and its companion volume of essays, Technology and the African-American Experience (MIT Press, 2004) will be essential references in an emerging area of study.
Author: Robert Cooper Publisher: The Institute for Southern Studies ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 132
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"GROWING UP SOUTHERN" ... The words evoke a tide of images, both bitter and sweet: overalls and organdy, hot green fields, cool brown creeks, Grandma's front porch, lengthy and complicated family connections, Mama's fried chicken and biscuits and Granddaddy's cane syrup, "colored" water fountains and "white" ones, church, chores, Dixie, and hot dark dangerous summer nights. Today's Southern children get their biscuits as often from Hardee's as from Mama. On Saturday afternoons they're as likely to cool off in the local shopping mall as in a shady spring-fed swimming hole. But Grandma and Grandpa and Uncle Joe and Aunt Elaine loom large in the lives of today's Southern kids, just as they did in those of earlier generations. The hard work many children still do isn't likely to be acknowledged by their elders; "colored" and "white" labels are less blatant, but they still constrict the futures of this generation's Southern children. Crowing Up Southern explores the continuities and the chasms between the lives of Southern children today and in the past.
Author: Olga Tokarczuk Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0525541357 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 290
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." —Annie Proulx In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind . . . A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?
Author: B. M. Mollohan Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595347231 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 662
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The land was called "Virginia" by Sir Walter Raleigh. A region of natural beauty, governed by temperamental weather, the western slopes of the Alleghenies beckoned a sturdy stock of early hunters, explorers, and settlers. This is the story of how those early residents forged a home, a nation, and finally, a state, along these rocky slopes.
Author: Sara Brooks
Author: Sara Brooks
Author: Sara Brooks
Author: Kimberley Louise Phillips
Author: Sara Brooks
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Author: Carroll Pursell
Author: Robert Cooper
Author: Olga Tokarczuk
Author: B. M. Mollohan