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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 to white patriarchy, she sees herself...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Watkins, Norma
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2011.
Series:Willie Morris books in memoir and biography.
Subjects:
Watkins, Norma.
Watkins, Norma
1900-1999
Women, White > Mississippi > Biography.
African Americans > Segregation > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Racism > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Racisme > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Ségrégation > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Blanches > Mississippi > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
African Americans > Segregation
Race relations
Racism
Social conditions
Women, White
Mississippi > Social conditions > 20th century.
Mississippi > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Mississippi > Biography.
Mississippi > Biographies.
Mississippi > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Mississippi > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Mississippi
Biographies
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. 1943-1945
  • pt. 2. 1945-1955
  • pt. 3. 1955-1966.

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