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Perish [large print] a novel / by Watkins, LaToya,author.;
"From a stunning new voice, comes a powerful debut novel, Perish, about a Black Texan family, exploring the effects of inherited trauma and intergenerational violence as the family comes together to say goodbye to their matriarch on her deathbed. Bear it or perish. Those are the words Helen Jean hears that fateful night in her cousin's outhouse that change the trajectory of her life. Spanning decades, Perish tracks the choices Helen Jean--the matriarch of the Turner family--makes and the ways those choices have rippled across generations, from her children to hergrandchildren and beyond. Told in alternating chapters that follow four members of the Turner family: Julie B., a woman who regrets her wasted youth and the time spent under Helen Jean's thumb; Alex, a police officer grappling with a dark and twisted past; Jan, a mother of two, who yearns to go to school and leave Jerusalem, Texas, and all of its trauma behind for good; and Lydia, a woman whose marriage is falling apart because her body can't seem to stay pregnant, as they're called home to say goodbye to their mother and grandmother. This family's "reunion" unearths long-kept secrets and forces each member to ask themselves important questions about who is deserving of forgiveness and who bears the cross of blame. Tackling themes like family, trauma, legacy, home, class, race, and more, this beautiful yet heart-wrenching novel, will appeal to anyone who is interested in the intricacies of family and the ways bonds can be made, maintained, or irrevocably broken"--
Subjects: Large print books.; Novels.; Fiction.; African American families; Rural families;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 11
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African-American gardens and yards in the rural South / by Westmacott, Richard Noble.(CARDINAL)521210;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-190) and index.
Subjects: African American gardens; Gardens; Gardening; African Americans;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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You gotta deal with it : Black family relations in a Southern community / by Kennedy, Theodore R.,1936-(CARDINAL)139978;
Introduction: General Description of Community -- A Feeling of Entrapment -- Judgment Day and the Aftermath -- You Gotta Deal with It -- Going to the Land of Cotton -- Dealing with It -- Family Number One -- Family Number Two -- Family Number Three -- Family Number Four -- The Black Family Unit -- Good-bye Vera Ridge -- A Survey of the Literature on the Black Family -- Attributes of Mama -- Attributes of Daddy -- Attributes of Sister -- Attributes of Brother -- Attributes of a Person Who Is the Same as a Mama -- The Social and Physical Person.Examines black family life in a Southern community and the relationships of family members to each other and to the community in which they live.
Subjects: African American families;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Call to home : African Americans reclaim the rural South / by Stack, Carol B.(CARDINAL)160155;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-215) and index.1120L
Subjects: African Americans; Urban-rural migration; North Caroliniana.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Men we reaped [large print] a memoir / by Ward, Jesmyn.(CARDINAL)345339;
In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. But why? As she began to write about living through all the dying, Jesmyn realized the truth -- and it took her breath away. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were from, because they lived with a history of racism and economic struggle.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Large print books.; Ward, Jesmyn.; African American men; African American women authors; Rural poor;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Men we reaped : [sound recording] a memoir by Ward, Jesmyn(CARDINAL)345339; Boothe, Cherisenrt; Recorded Books, LLC;
Narrated by Cherise Boothe.Recounts the loss of five young men in the author's life to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the misfortune that can follow those who live in poverty, sharing her experiences of living through the dying as she searches through answers in her community.Compact disc.
Subjects: Audiobooks; Ward, Jesmyn; African American women authors; Rural poor; African American men;
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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Men we reaped : a memoir / by Ward, Jesmyn,author.(CARDINAL)345339;
Includes bibliographical references and index.We are in Wolf Town -- Roger Eric Daniels III -- We are born -- Demond Cook -- We are wounded -- Charles Joseph Martin -- We are watching -- Ronald Wayne Lizana -- We are learning -- Joshua Adam Dedeaux -- We are here.A memoir that examines rural poverty and the lingering strains of racism in the South by the author of Salvage the bones.A memoir that examines rural poverty and the lingering strains of racism in the south by the prize-winning author of "Salvage the Bones."1020L
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Ward, Jesmyn.; African American women authors; Rural poor; African American men;
Available copies: 29 / Total copies: 32
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Goin' home / by Murari, Timeri.(CARDINAL)142093;
Subjects: Stanford family.; African American families.; Rural-urban migration;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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African American life in the rural South, 1900-1950 / by Hurt, R. Douglas.(CARDINAL)158108;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-218) and index."Lookin' for better all the time" : rural migration and urbanization in the South, 1900-1950 / Louis M. Kyriakoudes -- "A crude and raw past" : work, folklife, and anti-agrarianism in twentieth-century African American autobiography / Ted Ownby -- "Of the least and the most" : the African American rural church / Lois E. Myers, Rebecca Sharpless -- Shifting boundaries : race relations in the rural Jim Crow South / Melissa Walker -- African American rural culture, 1900-1950 / Valerie Grim -- Benign public policies, malignant consequences, and the demise of African American agriculture / William P. Browne -- "I have been through fire" : black agricultural extension agents and the politics of negotiation / Jeannie Whayne -- Exit, voice, and loyalty : African American strategies for day-to-day existence/resistance in the early-twentieth-century rural South / Peter Coclanis, Bryant Simon."During the first half of the twentieth century, degradation, poverty, and hopelessness were commonplace for African Americans who lived in the South's countryside, either on farms or in rural communities. Many southern blacks sought relief from these conditions by migrating to urban centers. Many others, however, continued to live in rural areas. Scholars of African American rural history in the South have been concerned primarily with the experience of blacks as sharecroppers, tenant farmers, textile workers, and miners. Less attention has been given to other aspects of the rural African American experience during the early twentieth century. African American Life in the Rural South, 1900-1950 provides important new information about African American culture, social life, and religion, as well as economics, federal policy, migration, and civil rights. The essays particularly emphasize the efforts of African Americans to negotiate the white world in the southern countryside. Filling a void in southern studies, this outstanding collection provides a substantive overview of the subject. Scholars, students, and teachers of African American, southern, agricultural, and rural history will find this work invaluable."--Publishers website.
Subjects: African Americans; African Americans; African American farmers; Agriculture; Sharecropping;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Her own place : a novel / by Sanders, Dori,1934-author.(CARDINAL)774212;
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Subjects: Domestic fiction.; African Americans; Rural families; Women farmers;
Available copies: 49 / Total copies: 56
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