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The Dawn at My Back
Carroll Parrott Blue
其他書名
A Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing
出版University of Texas Press, 2003
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / WomenBiography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
ISBN02927091379780292709133
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=sMVTAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"In telling this story, Blue underscores how strongly popular culture images of Blacks affected the lives of individual African Americans. She remembers movies such as Imitation of Life that she and her mother viewed together and fought about, ads that portrayed Negroes as unclean, TV shows like Amos 'n' Andy that perpetuated stereotypes - and shows how the unending barrage of demeaning images set her mother on a lifelong quest for self-improvement and middle-class respectability. Blue also describes how the same images, coupled with her mother's relentless efforts to impose essentially white standards of behavior and appearance on her daughter, created in Blue the desire to be a shaper of images rather than just a consumer, which eventually led to her becoming a photographer and filmmaker. Sweeping across the whole twentieth century, this mother-daughter story ultimately becomes a seething American history, the story of a growing African American awareness."--BOOK JACKET.