Life Notes: Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women
by Patricia Bell-Scott (Editor)
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Life Notes is the first collection devoted exclusively to writings from the journals, diaries, and personal notebooks of contemporary Black women by the author of the best-selling Double Stitch: Black Women Write About Mothers and Daughters. In her foreword to this volume Marcia Ann Gillespie writes, "Keeping a journal is an extraordinarily intimate activity, sharing what we write is to allow another to peer through a delicate window where we stand without covers." In. This beautiful show more collection of intensely personal testimonies, 50 courageous writers illuminate the complexities of Black women's lives, offering unique reflections about self, family, intimacy, work, politics, life transitions, violation, and recovery. Among the contributors are well-known writers as well as emerging and previously unpublished writers. A diverse group, they are native daughters from three continents and the Caribbean, the youngest an eight-year-old. Nigerian girl and the oldest a sixty-five-year-old retired African American telephone operator. show lessTags
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- 305.48 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Women Specific groups of women
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- E185.86 .L498 — History of the United States United States Elements in the population Afro-Americans Status and development since emancipation
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