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- catalog abstract "The strong women and men of her youth taught Gloria Wade-Gayles invaluable lessons about race, faith, and dignity. In these richly spiritual and moving essays, she recalls their powerful legacy as she traces her steps from a southern housing project to a college professorship. With grace and humor she evokes the caring black community of her childhood in racially segregated Memphis. She writes of the close and sustaining bonds among the women of her family and of her painful and loving relationship with an uncle devastated by racism. She takes us from her spiritual grooming in the black church to her activism and imprisonments during the civil rights movement. Throughout the book, Wade-Gayles writes courageously about complex issues: her friendship with a white woman, her reasons for being pro-choice, and mourning her mother's death. She transforms even the universally traumatic experience of a bad haircut into an exploration of the politics of hairstyles and the meaning of gratitude. Passionate, lyrical, often playful, these memories remind us all how we can infuse the struggle for justice with warmth and love.".
- catalog contributor b4898383.
- catalog coverage "Memphis (Tenn.) Race relations.".
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description "Passionate, lyrical, often playful, these memories remind us all how we can infuse the struggle for justice with warmth and love.".
- catalog description "The strong women and men of her youth taught Gloria Wade-Gayles invaluable lessons about race, faith, and dignity. In these richly spiritual and moving essays, she recalls their powerful legacy as she traces her steps from a southern housing project to a college professorship. With grace and humor she evokes the caring black community of her childhood in racially segregated Memphis. She writes of the close and sustaining bonds among the women of her family and of her painful and loving relationship with an uncle devastated by racism. She takes us from her spiritual grooming in the black church to her activism and imprisonments during the civil rights movement. Throughout the book, Wade-Gayles writes courageously about complex issues: her friendship with a white woman, her reasons for being pro-choice, and mourning her mother's death. She transforms even the universally traumatic experience of a bad haircut into an exploration of the politics of hairstyles and the meaning of gratitude.".
- catalog extent "xi, 276 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Pushed back to strength.".
- catalog identifier "0807009229".
- catalog isFormatOf "Pushed back to strength.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Beacon Press,".
- catalog relation "Pushed back to strength.".
- catalog spatial "Memphis (Tenn.) Race relations.".
- catalog spatial "Tennessee Memphis".
- catalog subject "973/.0496073/0092 B 20".
- catalog subject "African American women Tennessee Memphis Biography.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Tennessee Memphis Biography.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Tennessee Memphis Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "F444.M59 N48 1993".
- catalog subject "Gayles, Gloria Jean Wade Childhood and youth.".
- catalog title "Pushed back to strength : a Black woman's journey home / Gloria Wade-Gayles.".
- catalog type "text".