Pushed back to strength : a Black woman's journey home / Gloria Wade-Gayles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gayles, Gloria Jean Wade.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gayles, Gloria Jean Wade--Childhood and youth.

Gayles, Gloria Jean Wade.

African Americans--Tennessee--Memphis--Biography.

African Americans.

Social conditions.

African American women.

Tennessee--Memphis.

African American women--Tennessee--Memphis--Biography.

Memphis (Tenn.)--Race relations.

Memphis (Tenn.).

African Americans--Tennessee--Memphis--Social conditions.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (inscription) (Banks Collection copy)

Gayles, Gloria Jean Wade (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 276 pages : portrait ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Beacon Press, 1993.

Contents:

Pushed Back to Strength: Growing Up Black and Female in a Segregated South

Homecomings

Train Departed: Remembering My Father as Daddy

Sexual Beatitudes: Passion in Your Own Unworried Time

A Second Baptism

In the East, Headed South to Home

The Making of a Permanent Afro

Choosing Motherhood and Pro-Choice

The Dilemma of Black Rage and White Friends

Letting Go

The Day I Bought a Wig: A Lesson in Gratitude

In Need of Healing and Reconnections

For My Children's Remembering.

Notes:

"Text design by Copenhaver Cumpston."

"Jacket design: Sara Eisenman."

"Jacket art: 'Home Sweet Home,' collage ... by Varnette P. Honeywood ..."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy inscribed "For Joanna - you are strong and beautiful because you celebrate 'Love'. Glora Gayles 12/13/93".

ISBN:

0807009229 :

OCLC:

27895861