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Individual lives, viewed through the right lens, can reveal the essence of a time and place with startling clarity. In this innovative memoir, filmmaker Carroll Parrott Blue turns her lens on her mother's and her own lives as African American women in the segregated South before and during the Civil Rights era. This mother-daughter story foregrounds two strong women who fought institutionalized racism?one through community activism, the other through artistic creativity?even as the effects of racism and their differing responses to it frayed the very fabric of their relationship.
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Individual lives, viewed through the right lens, can reveal the essence of a time and place with startling clarity. In this innovative memoir, filmmaker Carroll Parrott Blue turns her lens on her mother's and her own lives as African American women in the segregated South before and during the Civil Rights era. This mother-daughter story foregrounds two strong women who fought institutionalized racism - one through community activism, the other through artistic creativity - even as the effects of racism and their differing responses to it frayed the very fabric of their relationship.
Title: The Dawn at My Back: Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing
Edition: 1st edition
ISBN Number: 0292709137
ISBN-13: 9780292709133
Location Published: University of Texas Press: 2003
Binding: Hard cover
Book Condition: Like new
Jacket Condition: Light wear
lbs: 3.00 lbs
Type: Black hard cover
Categories: Texas, African American, Biography, Black History
Seller ID: aa2207
