Hush Now, Baby : A Memoir /

Hush Now, Baby is the story of how a little white girl climbed out of an uneasy childhood in the segregated South...on the backbone of a black woman who loved her unabashedly. A host of African-American women permeated Southern families. One of those stalwart women was Eva Aiken, a central figure in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Williams, Angela W., 1941- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Huntsville, Texas : Texas Review Press, 2015.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women slaves.
Women household employees.
Manners and customs.
Dysfunctional families.
African American women household employees.
Familles inadaptees > Caroline du Sud > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Employees de maison noires americaines > Caroline du Sud > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Employees de maison > Caroline du Sud > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Femmes esclaves > Caroline du Sud > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Dysfunctional families > South Carolina > Fiction.
African American women household employees > South Carolina > Fiction.
Women household employees > South Carolina > Fiction.
Women slaves > South Carolina > Fiction.
South Carolina.
Caroline du Sud > Moeurs et coutumes > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
South Carolina > Social life and customs > Fiction.
Fiction.
Electronic books.
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Sumario:Hush Now, Baby is the story of how a little white girl climbed out of an uneasy childhood in the segregated South...on the backbone of a black woman who loved her unabashedly. A host of African-American women permeated Southern families. One of those stalwart women was Eva Aiken, a central figure in the author's life from her birth...until Eva staged a sit-in at the girl's wedding. The story captures the glorious early years of the Lowcountry South Carolina family then graphically depicts its unraveling. Eva holds them together. The family and the country's parallel struggles converge. The author lives in bubble-wrap until Civil Rights issues escalate. This story is told without pathos and with graceful restraint-the Southern way. "Angela's prose plunges us back in time when a generation of white children were raised by the calloused hands of slaves who, despite being freed by Lincoln, remained chained to a stubborn way of life. Instead of killing us in our sleep, they became our guardian angels, for reasons still mysteriously misunderstood." --Ken Burger, author of Swallow Savannah, Sister Santee, Salkehatchie Soup, and Baptized in Sweet Tea. --Provided by publisher.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (360 pages).
ISBN:9781680030358

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