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Leaving Pipe Shop : memories of kin / Deborah E. McDowell.
LIBRA F334.B5 M38 1996
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McDowell, Deborah E., 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- McDowell, Deborah E., 1951---Childhood and youth.
- McDowell, Deborah E.
- McDowell, Deborah E., 1951-.
- African American women--Alabama--Bessemer--Biography.
- African American women.
- African Americans--Alabama--Bessemer--Biography.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Alabama--Bessemer--Social life and customs.
- McDowell family.
- Manners and customs.
- Bessemer (Ala.)--Biography.
- Bessemer (Ala.).
- Alabama--Bessemer.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 359 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, 1998.
- Summary:
- In the illuminating language of memory, Deborah McDowell tells the story of her family, living a segregated life in Bessemer, Alabama, where her father worked at U.S. Foundry and Pipe, nicknamed Pipe Shop. Through the intimate details of their daily lives, she shows us how civil rights affected a working-class town, among three generations of women and men. McDowell movingly uncovers a world rarely portrayed, where she was raised to love the sounds and meanings of words and to value a place and culture that has passed.
- Contents:
- Part one: Summons, Memorial Day weekend 1994
- The magic mineral
- Arrival
- Fourth of July
- Part two: Pipe shop
- 1805 long Eighteenth Street
- Wresting the alphabet
- Plaiting the maypole
- 1404 Ninth Avenue
- The hokey pokey
- Uncle Fred junior
- Part three: Fire and snow
- Emancipation Day
- Easter Sunday
- Pecans
- Reverend Lockhart
- Blue mohair
- Steal away
- A very ancient grief
- Part four: The wedding
- Hush now, don't explain
- College bound
- Coming out
- "Termination
- After the stroke
- Mother's effects
- Part five: Going to Indiana
- Christmas
- Voilà
- Mama's pocketbook
- Museums
- Part six: Return, Memorial Day weekend 1995
- Revelations
- Revisitations
- Records.
- Notes:
- Originally published in hardcover by Scribner, c1996.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.
- ISBN:
- 0393318435
- 9780393318432
- OCLC:
- 40148166
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