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Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience

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Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience

Jill Nelson

A candid memoir about the author’s experience as a Black woman journalist and the conflicts around identity, workplace racism, and self-definition.

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Work Information

It draws a sharp, candid portrait of the gap between workplace reality and self-image.

The book turns experiences of exclusion and pressure in journalism into something that reads both as personal testimony and social critique. Its Black feminist perspective is unmistakable.

Book Information

Publisher
Noble Pr
Published
1993-05-01
Pages
243 pages
Language
英語
Size
15.24 x 3.18 x 22.86 cm
ISBN-13
9781879360242
ISBN-10
1879360241
Price
8419 JPY
Category
洋書/Nonfiction/Education/Reference/Dictionaries & Thesauri

A noted black woman journalist recounts her experiences as an outsider in the newsroom of The Washington Post in the late 1980s. National ad/promo. Tour.

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  • I read this book a year ago. I purchased it from Amazon to give as a gift. It was AWESOME.

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  • i had to read this for my class then do my final paper on it i end up liking the book its a great read educational and interesting

  • It was fine.

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