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The last resort : taking the Mississippi cure / Norma Watkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watkins, Norma.
- Series:
- Willie Morris books in memoir and biography.
- Willie Morris books in memoir and biography
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women, White--Mississippi--Biography.
- Women, White.
- African Americans--Segregation--Mississippi--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Racism--Mississippi--History--20th century.
- Racism.
- Mississippi--Social conditions--20th century.
- Mississippi.
- Mississippi--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Mississippi--Biography.
- Watkins, Norma.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (309 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Raised under the racial segregation that kept her family's southern country hotel afloat, Norma Watkins grows up listening at doors, trying to penetrate the secrets and silences of the black help and of her parents' marriage. Groomed to be an ornament
- Contents:
- pt. 1. 1943-1945
- pt. 2. 1945-1955
- pt. 3. 1955-1966.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-11658-8
- 9786613116581
- 1-60473-978-9
- OCLC:
- 729166781
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