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Pride of family : four generations of American women of color / Carole Ione.
Van Pelt Library E185.96 .I573 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ione, Carole, 1937-
- Series:
- Harlem Moon classic
- A Harlem Moon Classic
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ione, Carole, 1937---Family.
- Ione, Carole.
- Ione, Carole, 1937-.
- African American women--Biography.
- African American women.
- African American families.
- African Americans--Biography.
- African Americans.
- Families.
- Washington (D.C.)--Biography.
- Washington (D.C.).
- New York (State)--Biography.
- New York (State).
- Boston (Mass.)--Biography.
- Boston (Mass.).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 265 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First Harlem Moon trade paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harlem Moon, 2004.
- Summary:
- Originally published to rave reviews, Pride of Family is the dazzling true story of an upper-middle-class African American clan - and four generations of extraordinary women. Carole Ione, rebel daughter from a long line of rebel daughters, traces her heritage from her mother, Leighla, a sad and lovely journalist, actress, and composer; to glamorous grandmother Be-Be, the popular restaurateur and former showgirl; to upright great-aunt Sistonie, one of Washington's first black female physicians; and, finally, to great-grandmother Frances Anne Rollin, the indomitable feminist-abolitionist. It is through her great-grandmother's brilliant diaries that Ione finds enlightenment - a deep connection to the women she cherishes and the proud, glorious history they share.
- Contents:
- Family Timelines 2
- 1 The Women in the House 9
- 2 Wishing 16
- 3 Air Sandwiches 24
- 4 In the Kitchen with Be-Be 32
- 5 Spuyten Duyvil 41
- 6 From My Mother's Window 54
- 7 An Exotic Flower 73
- 8 The Dead are Still Alive 84
- 9 Exile 91
- 10 An Illuminated Diary 99
- 11 The Magnificent Whippers 108
- 12 Dear, Dear Boston 115
- 13 Being Be-Be 128
- 14 An Album of the Heart 137
- 15 Island Tales 155
- 16 Tough on Black Actors 171
- 17 Return to the South 186
- 18 A Little Lump of Gold 209
- 19 Finding Frank 217
- 20 Ghosts 230
- 21 Home 241.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Avon Books, 1991.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-265) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0767918444
- OCLC:
- 54424966
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