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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"'Standing on the stage, I felt exposed and like an intruder. In these professional settings, my personal experiences with hunger, poverty, and episodic homelessness, often go undetected. I had worked hard to learn the rules and disguise my beginning in life ... ' So begins C. Nicole Mason's powerful memoir, a story of reconciliation, constrained choices and life on the other side of the tracks. Born in the 1970s in Los Angeles, California, Mason...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Updated and revised.
Physical Desc
xviii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"'The passing on of information and history from one person to another to another has always served us well. Ours is an oral tradition.' So begins Take a Lesson, a groundbreaking book of oral history. Twenty years later, every word in this book holds up as relevant, resonant and, in some ways, prophetic. Here we are, in a profoundly different world that, in its relationship with Black people, has barely changed at all. Powerful first-person accounts...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 213 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A photographic tribute profiles fifty African-American women over the age of fifty who have distinguished themselves in the corporate, political, or entertainment worlds, including Ruby Dee and Marion Wright Edelman.
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