Summer snow : reflections from a Black daughter of the South / Trudier Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, Trudier.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Harris, Trudier--Childhood and youth.

Harris, Trudier.

African American women--Alabama--Biography.

African American women.

African Americans--Alabama--Biography.

African Americans.

African Americans--Alabama--Social life and customs--20th century.

Country life--Alabama.

Country life.

Alabama--Social life and customs--20th century.

Alabama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Beacon Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Trudier Harris will tell you that African Americans who consider themselves Southern are about as rare as summer snow. But Harris has always embraced the South, and in Summer Snow she explores her experience as a black Southerner and how it has shaped her into the writer and intellectual she has become. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

1. My Mother's Creation

2. Three Centuries

3. Cotton-Pickin' Authority

4. Dental Charity

5. "Would you go out with a white boy for five dollars?"

6. Porch-Sitting as a Creative Southern Tradition

7. The Overweight Angel

8. "Make a Joyful Noise"

9. Changes and Challenges

10. Black Nerds

11. Fishing

12. A Love of Expression

13. The Ubiquitous Hair

14. The Price of Desegregation

15. The Staying Power of Racism

16. Nursing Home

17. Summer Snow

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-8070-7253-2

OCLC:

646769170