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3) Praisesong for the kitchen ghosts: stories and recipes from five generations of black country cooks
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As the keeper of her family's stories and treasured dishes, a writer, in this part memoir, part cookbook, weaves those stories together with recipes, family photos and the untold heritage of black Appalachia"--
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiv, 288 pages).
Language
English
Description
In the 1960s increasing numbers of African American students entered predominantly white colleges and universities in the northern and western United States. This book focuses on the women of this pioneering generation, examining their educational stragtegies and experiences and exploring how social class, family upbringing, and expectations, their own and others', prepared them to achieve in an often hostile setting.
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
vii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Strings weaves together a historical narrative ranging from the Renaissance to the current moment, analyzing important works of art, newspaper and magazine articles, and scientific literature and medical journals--where fat bodies were once praised--showing that fat phobia, as it relates to black women, did not originate with medical findings, but with the Enlightenment era belief that fatness was evidence of "savagery" and racial inferiority. The...
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiii, 194 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits.
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1942 a young black law student at Howard University visited a class in constitutional law taught by one of the nation's leading historians: so began the decades-long friendship between Pauli Murray, the student, and Caroline Ware, the historian. This collection of their letters begins in 1943 and continues (with few interruptions) until Murray's death in 1985. The correspondence illuminates a significant period in what is now labeled...
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