Travels with Mae : Scenes from a New Orleans Girlhood /

With a series of lyrical vignettes Eileen M. Julien traces her life as an African American woman growing up in middle-class New Orleans in the 1950s and 1960s. Julien's narratives focus on her relationship with her mother, family, community, and the city itself, while touching upon life after t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Julien, Eileen, 1949-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Julien, Eileen, > 1949-
Julien, Eileen, > 1949- > Family.
Julien, Eileen, > 1949- > Childhood and youth.
Race relations.
Mothers and daughters.
Middle class.
Manners and customs.
Families.
Community life.
African Americans.
African American women.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Cultural Heritage.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
Communaute > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Meres et filles > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans.
Noires americaines > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans > Biographies.
Noirs americains > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans > Biographies.
Community life > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century.
Middle class > Louisiana > New Orleans > Biography.
Mothers and daughters > Louisiana > New Orleans.
African American women > Louisiana > New Orleans > Biography.
African Americans > Louisiana > New Orleans > Biography.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
New Orleans (La.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
New Orleans (La.) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
New Orleans (La.) > Biography.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
History.
Biography
Autobiography
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • What I Keep in My Freezer; or You Are What You Eat
  • Routines
  • Oatmeal Collage
  • A Streetcar Story
  • A Glimmer of Gender
  • Going to Algiers
  • "Buttons, anyone?" A Pacific Street Story
  • Room at the Top
  • Connie
  • The Jugs' Ball
  • "The Country"
  • Facts of Life
  • Money Troubles
  • Fudge and Jelly Donuts
  • The Shadow of Death
  • A Woman's Place
  • Brother Boyfriends
  • The House They Didn't Buy
  • Family Affairs
  • She Would Have Typed All Night
  • Small Victories
  • Daddy's Public Voice
  • Hurricane Betsy
  • Groovin'
  • Christmas '66
  • My Mother, My Hair
  • Getting Over It
  • Eunice, Mae, and Me
  • Man from the South
  • Questions of Power
  • Losing Mae
  • Arriving Late
  • Daddy's Gumbo
  • Conversation
  • Reflections
  • Revisiting
  • Birthday Surprise
  • Dakar Hair
  • The Carnival Spirit
  • Katrina
  • The Wake of the Storm
  • The Keys.

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