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Product Identifiers
PublisherSouthern Illinois University Press
ISBN-100809331225
ISBN-139780809331222
eBay Product ID (ePID)110948882
Product Key Features
Book TitleIt's Good to Be Black
Number of Pages264 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2013
TopicPersonal Memoirs, General, Black Studies (Global), Historical
GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorRuby Berkley Goodwin
Book SeriesIllinois Lives Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight9.8 Oz
Item Length7.9 in
Item Width4.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2012-036223
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"The author writes simply, of simpler times. Hers is an account of family and community life in Du Quoin, a coal-mining town of southern Illinois, where, as a child, she enjoyed life. Fun and love were predominant in her large family. Wise parents helped her through otherwise traumatic incidents which she and others occasionally experienced as blacks… Ruby Berkley Goodwin sees the underlying strength and dignity of the blacks who formed a real commuÂnity. She writes of her experiences without affectation and with humor." -Kliatt Paperback Book Guide "Episodes in the childhood of Ruby Berkley speak of the proud, just and generous family of Negroes living in Southern Illinois before the First World War. Since Dad was a coal miner, there is plenty of drama and pathos. But the great thing here is the family's tolerance of their polyglot neighbors who are also their friends."- Library Journal "This is a record, in retrospect, of course, of what life was like for a Negro family in DuQuoin, Ill., a mining town. Part of the book's fascination lies in the background material-the mines with their explosions, cave-ins, strikes, and lockouts. The rest of the fascination stems from the character of the father of this family-Braxton Berkley."- New York Herald Tribune Book Review, "The author writes simply, of simpler times. Hers is an account of family and community life in Du Quoin, a coal-mining town of southern Illinois, where, as a child, she enjoyed life. Fun and love were predominant in her large family. Wise parents helped her through otherwise traumatic incidents which she and others occasionally experienced as blacks... Ruby Berkley Goodwin sees the underlying strength and dignity of the blacks who formed a real community. She writes of her experiences without affectation and with humor." --Kliatt Paperback Book Guide "Episodes in the childhood of Ruby Berkley speak of the proud, just and generous family of Negroes living in Southern Illinois before the First World War. Since Dad was a coal miner, there is plenty of drama and pathos. But the great thing here is the family's tolerance of their polyglot neighbors who are also their friends."-- Library Journal "This is a record, in retrospect, of course, of what life was like for a Negro family in DuQuoin, Ill., a mining town. Part of the book's fascination lies in the background material--the mines with their explosions, cave-ins, strikes, and lockouts. The rest of the fascination stems from the character of the father of this family--Braxton Berkley."-- New York Herald Tribune Book Review, "The author writes simply, of simpler times. Hers is an account of family and community life in Du Quoin, a coal-mining town of southern Illinois, where, as a child, she enjoyed life. Fun and love were predominant in her large family. Wise parents helped her through otherwise traumatic incidents which she and others occasionally experienced as blacks... Ruby Berkley Goodwin sees the underlying strength and dignity of the blacks who formed a real community. She writes of her experiences without affectation and with humor." --Kliatt Paperback Book Guide "Episodes in the childhood of Ruby Berkley speak of the proud, just and generous family of Negroes living in Southern Illinois before the First World War. Since Dad was a coal miner, there is plenty of drama and pathos. But the great thing here is the family's tolerance of their polyglot neighbors who are also their friends."-- Library Journal "This is a record, in retrospect, of course, of what life was like for a Negro family in DuQuoin, Ill., a mining town. Part of the book's fascination lies in the background material--the mines with their explosions, cave-ins, strikes, and lockouts. The rest of the fascination stems from the character of the father of this family--Braxton Berkley."-- New York Herald Tribune Book Review, "The author writes simply, of simpler times. Hers is an account of family and community life in Du Quoin, a coal-mining town of southern Illinois, where, as a child, she enjoyed life. Fun and love were predominant in her large family. Wise parents helped her through otherwise traumatic incidents which she and others occasionally experienced as blacks… Ruby Berkley Goodwin sees the underlying strength and dignity of the blacks who formed a real community. She writes of her experiences without affectation and with humor." -Kliatt Paperback Book Guide "Episodes in the childhood of Ruby Berkley speak of the proud, just and generous family of Negroes living in Southern Illinois before the First World War. Since Dad was a coal miner, there is plenty of drama and pathos. But the great thing here is the family's tolerance of their polyglot neighbors who are also their friends."- Library Journal "This is a record, in retrospect, of course, of what life was like for a Negro family in DuQuoin, Ill., a mining town. Part of the book's fascination lies in the background material-the mines with their explosions, cave-ins, strikes, and lockouts. The rest of the fascination stems from the character of the father of this family-Braxton Berkley."- New York Herald Tribune Book Review
Dewey Decimal325.260973 301.451*
SynopsisFrom the preface by Carmen Kenya Wadley: "Is it good to be black? To Ruby Berkley Goodwin it was....The black she writes about has nothing to do with skin color, but it does have a great deal to do with self images, values, spiritual strength, and most of all love. Unlike the contradicting definitions of blackness we see reflected in today's crime statistics, movies, television, newspapers, political speeches, advertisements, and sociological reports, Ruby Berkley Goodwin's definition of blackness is simple and to the point: black is good. It's Good to be Black is more than the story (history) of a black family living in Du Quoin, Illinois, during the early 1900s; it is a reaffirmation for all of us who know in our hearts that there is still good in the world and that some of that good is black.", "This is a record, in retrospect, of course, of what life was like for a Negro family in DuQuoin, Ill., a mining town. Part of the book's fascination lies in the background material-the mines with their explosions, cave-ins, strikes, and lockouts. The rest of the fascination stems from the character of the father of this family-Braxton Berkley." New York Herald Tribune Book Review
LC Classification NumberF549.D8G66 2013
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- 14. Dez. 2022
Personal recollection…
Great personal look into the life of a young black woman living in Southern Illinois after the turn of the last century.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
