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- catalog abstract ""At the intersection of poetry and politics, race and gender, analysis and feeling lies this first memoir from Estella Conwill Majozo. Come Out the Wilderness depicts a search for "some state of grace" amid a life rooted in contradictions as it traces the journey of this African American poet, performance artist, community arts activist, teacher, and single mother."--BOOK JACKET. "Growing up in the "Little Africa" section of segregated Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1950s, Majozo is the only girl among five brothers. She is one of the only African American students at her Catholic school, and is expected to be a "spokesperson for the Black race" as the early battles of the Civil Rights Movement rage around her. Although she is raised with strong female role models - a mother and grandmother whose strength and intelligence are the bedrock of the family - she must win her college tuition by competing in the local "Miss Black Expo" contest."--BOOK JACKET. "When an early marriage grows abusive, Majozo confronts the conflicts faced by African American women who are forced to choose between a sense of loyalty to race and a consciousness of gender-based injustice. Refusing to "live the blues," she co-founds an important Black cultural center in Louisville, earns one of the first Ph. D.s awarded in African American literature, and goes on to become a professor at Hunter College and an active member of Harlem's vital arts community."--BOOK JACKET. "She synthesizes her new last name, Majozo, from the names of three great African American women: educator Mary McLeod Bethune, musician Josephine Baker, and writer Zora Neale Hurston. Estella Conwill Majozo's memoir testifies to the importance of a life lived in pursuit of spiritual growth, cultural heritage, and personal integrity."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11047071.
- catalog coverage "Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Intellectual life.".
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""At the intersection of poetry and politics, race and gender, analysis and feeling lies this first memoir from Estella Conwill Majozo. Come Out the Wilderness depicts a search for "some state of grace" amid a life rooted in contradictions as it traces the journey of this African American poet, performance artist, community arts activist, teacher, and single mother."--BOOK JACKET. "Growing up in the "Little Africa" section of segregated Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1950s, Majozo is the only girl among five brothers. She is one of the only African American students at her Catholic school, and is expected to be a "spokesperson for the Black race" as the early battles of the Civil Rights Movement rage around her. Although she is raised with strong female role models - a mother and grandmother whose strength and intelligence are the bedrock of the family - she must win her college tuition by competing in the local "Miss Black Expo" contest."--BOOK JACKET. "When an early marriage grows abusive, Majozo confronts the conflicts faced by African American women who are forced to choose between a sense of loyalty to race and a consciousness of gender-based injustice. Refusing to "live the blues," she co-founds an important Black cultural center in Louisville, earns one of the first Ph. D.s awarded in African American literature, and goes on to become a professor at Hunter College and an active member of Harlem's vital arts community."--BOOK JACKET. "She synthesizes her new last name, Majozo, from the names of three great African American women: educator Mary McLeod Bethune, musician Josephine Baker, and writer Zora Neale Hurston. Estella Conwill Majozo's memoir testifies to the importance of a life lived in pursuit of spiritual growth, cultural heritage, and personal integrity."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "x, 241 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1558612068 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "The cross-cultural memoir series".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York,".
- catalog spatial "Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Intellectual life.".
- catalog spatial "New York (State) New York.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "811/.54 B 21".
- catalog subject "African American arts New York (State) New York.".
- catalog subject "African American poets Biography.".
- catalog subject "African American women poets Biography.".
- catalog subject "English teachers United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Majozo, Estella Conwill.".
- catalog subject "PS3563.A29827 Z465 1999".
- catalog subject "Performance art United States.".
- catalog subject "Poets, American 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Women poets, American 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Women teachers United States Biography.".
- catalog title "Come out the wilderness : memoir of a Black woman artist / Estella Conwill Májozo.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".