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Don't let my mama read this : a southern fried memoir / Hadjii.
LIBRA - Rare E185.97.H225 A3 2008 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hadjii.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hadjii--Childhood and youth.
- Hadjii.
- Hadjii--Family.
- African Americans--Southern States--Biography.
- African Americans.
- African American young men--Southern States--Biography.
- African American young men.
- African American families--Southern States.
- African American families.
- African Americans--Southern States--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Families.
- Southern States--Social life and customs.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- African Americans--Social life and customs.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 219 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harlem Moon, 2008.
- Summary:
- Meet Hadjii. He's got a loving family, a taste for making trouble, and a wicked sense of humor. In Don't Let My Mama Read This, Hadjii recounts his adventures and misadventures in Georgia in the 1980s and '90s. A portrait of a well-lived childhood, it also offers a fresh, funny, eye-opening look at the topic of race in America.From playing on the street and squeezing every bit of fun out of each day to trying (usually unsuccessfully) to weasel out of going to church, to puzzling over why the Boogie Man in the closet doesn't have his back, Hadjii perfectly captures childhood experiences that will resonate with every reader.Combining the humor of Chris Rock and Bernie Mac and the tenderness of A Girl Named Zippy, Don't Let My Mama Read This is an entertaining and deeply satisfying memoir, written by a natural-born storyteller.
- Contents:
- The negro handbook
- Crusty draws, and a mother's pride
- "The Boogie Man ain't worth a damn!"
- Is this that "tough love" I've been hearing about?
- The family function
- "Is it Sunday again?"
- Don't touch my bike or my balls
- MHD: "Milton Hand Day"
- One word: Christmas!
- I duN Wint aNd Got Me wun Of Dem Edumakashuns
- Is it just me or do we need a longer shortbus?
- A short story about a long twenty-four hours
- A little AIDS ain't never hurt nobody!
- "Hadjii...da man will see you now"
- My mama can read this part
- Thank you.
- Notes:
- Book design by Nicola Ferguson.
- Cover design by Emily Mahon. Cover photograph courtesy of the author.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 9780767926478
- 0767926471
- OCLC:
- 180573758
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