Being somebody & Black besides : an untold memoir of midcentury Black life / George B. Nesbitt ; edited by Prexy Nesbit and Zeb Larson ; with an original foreword by St. Clair Drake and a contemporary foreword by Imani Perry.
"Like many twentieth-century Black families, the Nesbitts achieved an incredible transformation over the course of a single generation: from performing manual labor on the rural farms of the deep south to holding advanced degrees and owning property in the urban midwest, their family's story was liv...
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2021.
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| Physical Description: | xliv, 298 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm |
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Contents:
- Foreword / Imani Perry
- A note on St. Clair Drake's "Foreword" / Sandra Drake
- Foreword to the George Nesbitt Manuscript / St. Clair Drake
- A note on the manuscript / Prexy Nesbitt
- Preface
- Our family's great migration : growing up Black in the shadow of the university
- A family which stayed together
- Learning to be somebody
- The comfort of my Negroness
- Going to university : labor and learning
- Town and gown : the difficulty of navigating two worlds
- Lawyer by day, redcap at night : union organizing and rabble rousing
- The army and its apartheid : the racial system in the war years
- The ugly specter of race discrimination
- Poking at the good, white liberals : discrimination veiled and rationalized
- An exceptional family in the Lawndale ghetto
- The future of our people
- Postscript.