Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South

ISBN-13: 9780440314882 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1992 / 432 str.

Anne Moody

Opis

Written without a trace of sentimentality or apology, this is an unforgettable personal story--the truth as a remarkable young woman named Anne Moody lived it. To read her book is to know what it is to have grown up black in Mississippi in the forties an fifties--and to have survived with pride and courage intact.

In this now classic autobiography, she details the sights, smells, and suffering of growing up in a racist society and candidily reveals the soul of a black girl who had the courage to challenge it. The result is a touchstone work: an accurate, authoritative portrait of black family life in the rural South and a moving account of a woman's indomitable heart.