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An identity polyptych / Tameca L Coleman.

PS3603.O43633 I34 2021

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Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: Coleman, Tameca L., author.
Contributor:: Edith E. Clark Endowment Fund.
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: African American women--Race identity--Poetry.; African American women.; Ethnicity--Poetry.; Ethnicity.; Identity (Psychology)--Poetry.; Identity (Psychology).; Multiracial people--Poetry.; Multiracial people.; Racism--Poetry.; Racism.; African American women--Race identity.; Families.; Coleman, Tameca L--Family--Poetry.; Coleman, Tameca L.
Genre:: Autobiographical poetry.; Poetry.
Physical Description:: 111 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:: [United States] : The Elephants, [2021]
Contents:: Machine generated contents note: I do not know when reconciliation comes; They Were Made For L's; Am I Black?; A friend of mine says ...; "For all practical purposes ..."; "It never matters until I leave the house"; "When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim ..."; It became apparent ...; Inside, Outside, the Ocean; Damballa; A Shape Story; "The work is never ending ..."; You can't just read your way out ...; My Black; Toothpick Shortly Alter 9/11; Sing It Like They Do In Africa; My Blackness is a Constant Question; A Cat Named Nigger; I Remember Us As Thieves; We Chucked Rocks at the Woodland Haunts; The Story of My Name; How to Honor Your Mother and Your Father; Winter, 1976: An Interview with My Mother; It could have been Cordova; My brothers and I had a swing set ...; Mom's name was on the deed; Mom had a man come draw a panther; The man drew Conan the Barbarian ...; I wanted something on my wall too; The man suggested Care Bears ...; I was told my mother was a wild woman ...; He worked and worked ...; Sitting on his lap, being held like that, meant comfort; Kids on the bus ...; In reading class ...; I could never get away with anything ...; The man was going to paint the pictures ...; I got a bad spanking once ...; I remember Mom, how you joked ...; I used to melt crayons ...; The neighbor's boys; Mom married a man ...; My lather always had a lot of records ...; Mom told me once that he was jealous ...; My mother's neck shakes ...; My mother had a hawk eye; In the eighties, so main PSAs; The bully on the bus ...; Mom ruled with a double bind; Mom used to say that she was so happy ...; When the bully on the bus tore the letter ...; We went to Mom's and her boyfriend's ...; The twins next door; We got a box from Maryland ...; A friend who worked for the state ...; I fell asleep with the light; Your oldest sister, my aunt; Twenty Years; Alter My Father's Wife Died; Uncle John; [... coal and kindling ...]; [... testify ...].
Notes:: Includes bibliographical references.
Local Notes:: Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edith E. Clark Endowment Fund.
ISBN:: 1988979447; 9781988979441
OCLC:: 1269483274
Publisher Number:: 99990183358

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