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How it happens / Jean Alicia Elster.
Van Pelt Library PS3605.L775 H69 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elster, Jean Alicia, author.
- Series:
- Great Lakes books
- Great Lakes books series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Multiracial women--Tennessee--History--19th century--Fiction.
- Multiracial women.
- African American women--Tennessee--History--19th century--Fiction.
- African American women.
- Young adult fiction.
- Jackson, Addie--Fiction.
- Jackson, Addie.
- Jackson, Dorothy May, 1890---Fiction.
- Jackson, Dorothy May.
- History.
- Tennessee--Fiction.
- Tennessee.
- Detroit (Mich.)--Fiction.
- Detroit (Mich.).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Biographical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 224 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- Born in Tennessee in 1890, Dorothy May was the middle daughter of Addie Jackson, a married African-American housekeeper at one of the white boardinghouses in town, and Tom Mitchell, a commanding white attorney from a prominent family. We follow Dorothy May's experiences with race relations and class division, both as a child and later as a teacher. Dorothy May, choosing between her career and marriage to a man she barely knows, moves to Detroit. -- adapted from back cover
- Notes:
- "[Follows] the fictionalized story of author Jean Alicia Elster's maternal grandmother, Dorothy May Jackson." -- back cover.
- ISBN:
- 0814348696
- 9780814348697
- OCLC:
- 1247836960
- Publisher Number:
- 99988466187
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