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Title Can anything beat white? : a Black family's letters / [edited by] Elisabeth Petry
Edition 1st ed
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 190 pages)
Series Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.
Contents Surviving the patterrollers -- The surrogate mother -- The wanderer -- Consumed by life -- Getting along swimmingly -- Setting the stage -- Writing for posterity from Hawaii -- Challenges at Atlanta University -- A lark a flyin' -- Achieving a dream
Summary Ann Petry (1908-1997) achieved prominence during a period in which few black women were published with regularity in America. Her novels, along with various short stories and non-fiction, poignantly described the struggles and triumphs of middle-class blacks living in primarily white communities. Petry's ancestors, the James family, served as inspiration for much of her fiction. This collection of more than four hundred family letters, edited by Petry's daughter, is an engaging portrait of black family life from the 1890s to the early twentieth century
Notes Print version record
Subject Petry, Ann, 1908-1997 -- Family
James family -- Correspondence
SUBJECT James family fast
Petry, Ann, 1908-1997 fast
Petry, Ann Lane. swd
Subject Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships
African American novelists -- Family relationships
African American families -- History -- Sources
African Americans -- Correspondence
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Letters.
African American families
African Americans
Families
Novelists, American -- Family relationships
Ahnen
Genre/Form History
Personal correspondence
Sources
Quelle.
Form Electronic book
Author Petry, Elisabeth.
ISBN 9781617030680
1617030686
1282917366
9781282917361