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Mom and Me and Mom

von Maya Angelou

Biography Non-Fiction History

ISBN

9781844089154

Verlag

Virago Press

Erschienen

01.01.1970

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Komme während der Öffnungszeiten vorbei und leihe ein verfügbares Exemplar aus.

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Biography Autobiography Memoir Maya Angelou Mother-Daughter Relationship African American History Women's History 20th Century Race and Identity Family Dynamics Personal Growth American Literature Literary Nonfiction Inspirational Cultural Heritage Historical Context Women's Empowerment Resilience Influential Women Merchant Marines Gambling Business Rooming House Childhood Emotional Journey Literary Icon Black Women Writers American South Stamps Arkansas Paternal Grandmother Vivian Baxter Johnson.

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'In the first decade of the twentiety century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.' So begins this stunning portrait of Vivian Baxter Johnson: the first black woman officer in the Merchant Marines, purveyor of a gambling business and rooming house, and mother to one of our most cherished literary treasures. Anyone who's read the classic, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, knows Maya Angelou was raised by her paternal grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. In Mom & Me & Mom, Angelou details what brought her mother to send her away and unearths the well of emotions Angelou experienced long afterward as a result. While Angelou's six autobiographies tell of her out in the world, influencing and learning from statesmen and cultural icons, Mom &