Go girl! : the black woman's book of travel and adventure / Elaine Lee, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lee, Elaine, 1952- editor.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voyages and travels.

African American women travelers.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

364 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Portland, Oregon : The Eighth Mountain Press, 1997.

Summary:

Maya Angelou tells the story of arriving in Africa a stranger but leaving claimed as a Bambara. Evelyn C. White writes about finding new pride in being black after visiting Egypt. Opal Palmer Adisa evokes the sights, sounds, and aromas of urban Chana where she traveled to meet her lifelong pen pal. Lucinda Roy brings alive the year she spent teaching girls in Sierra Leone and tells how the villagers' friendship overcame her loneliness for home. Alice Walker offers a quiet meditation on her "spiritual inertia" in Bali and how the beauty of the country finally stirred her imagination. Audre Lorde captures her experience of being refused entry to the British Virgin Islands because of her dreadlocks. Gwendolyn Brooks recounts the camaraderie and tensions of a trip to Russia with a group of American writers. Gloria Wade-Gayles explores the complexities of being both an American and a woman of color as a paying guest in a Mexican home. Colleen J. McElroy sets out to find the descendants of blacks abandoned in the former Yugoslavia by Turkish slave traders in the last days of the Ottoman Empire. Linda Villarosa travels to El Carmen, Peru, for the four-day Christmas celebration that combines Peruvian and African cultures. Barbara Chase-Riboud shows us her Paris. Rachel Christmas Derrick takes us on a sun-drenched tour of one of her favorite Caribbean islands. Jill Nelson brings us along on her annual homecoming to the Martha's Vineyard summer community formed by blacks in the early part of the century.

Contents:

1. Back to Africa. Goin' There and Knowin' There / Andrea Benton Rushing. Going to Ghana / Adrienne Johnson. from All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes / Maya Angelou. Egypt: Body and Soul / Evelyn C. White. Accra Drums Me Home / Opal Palmer Adisa. Harvest out of Africa / Barbara Ellis-Van de Water. A Homestay in Namibia / Emma T. Lucas. Seeing Things in the Dark / Lucinda Roy. Movements / Tahra Edwards. My Color Follows Me Wherever I Go / Emma T. Lucas. An Apology in Ghana / Renée Kemp

2. Sistren Traveling the Diaspora. A Plunge into Adventure / Jill Nelson. Sailing My Fantasy / Sheila S. Walker. Easy in the Exumas / Rachel Christmas Derrick. A Bahia Story / Jennifer Sanders. Delivering Sasonoa / Barbara Ellis-Van Water. Journey to Yard: A Jamaican Cultural Experience / Rosalind Cummings-Yeates. Oh, Oh, Those West Indian Men! / Marianne Ilaw. Catching a Glimpse / Aya de León. Vising Nannytown / Daphne E. Barbee-Wooten. In Search of Black Peru: Christmas in El Carmen / Linda Villarosa. Before I Was a Bajan / Loretta Henry. Culture-Rich Carriacou / Linda Cousins. Is Your Hair Still Political? / Audre Lorde. Gan Gan Sarah / Linda Cousins. My Carnival Journey / Charisse Jones. At Home on an Island / Jill Nelson. A Sea Island Legacy / Toni Eubanks. Miss Sippi / Sharony Andrews Green. The Kindess of Strangers / Brenda Joyce Patterson. Homegirl on the Range / Dale Grenier

3. Trippin' All Over the World. The Encroaching Forest: Southeast Asian Memories / Faith Adiele. Finding Myself in the World / Dorothy Lazard. Magic in Alice Springs / Rosemary Blake. A Sharecropper's Daughter Goes to Paris / Lydia A. Nayo. Black Woman in Russia / Gwendolyn Brooks. The Mid-Morning Crowd / Wuanda M. T. Walls. A Homegirl Hits Beijing / Constance García-Barrio. A Black Broad Abroad / Dawn Comer. Japan in My Dreams / Viki Radden. Genesis of the Traveling Spirit / Kristin M. Jefferson. Ubud, Bali / Alice Walker. Land of the Morning Calm / Gwen Shervington. A Chilly Reception in Innsbruck / Dawn Comer. Why Paris / Barbara Chase-Riboud. Finding the Right Stuff: Lessons in Bargaining / Stephanie Ann Rush Wilson-Davenport. Red Dirt on my Feet / Earthlyn Marselean Manuel. Whose Vacation is This Anyway? / Joy V. Harris. In the Land up Over / Tonya Bolden. How Not to Be a Gringo: Experiences with Color and Race in Mexico / Gloria Wade-Gayles. Journey to Ulcinj / Colleen J. McElroy. Creating and Sustaining a Trip Around the World / Elaine Lee.

Notes:

"Cover illustration and design © by Linda Dalal Sawaya."

"Book design by Ruth Gundle and Marcia Barrentine."

"First printing 1997."

"A rich collection of fifty-two stories covering the globe."--Cover.

Publisher's advertisements: [4] pages at end.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-352).

Local Notes:

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

Other Format:

Online version: Go girl!

ISBN:

0933377436

9780933377431

0933377428

9780933377424

OCLC:

37187488