The music was as much a gift as sunshine, rain, as any blessing ever prayed for. Frightened by her own child, keri searches for help, quickly learning that the mental health community can only offer her a seventytwo hour hold. Bebe moore campbell was an american author, journalist and teacher. The muncie times, thursday, 20 october 1994, page 28. Seven women have made their way there, each with her own story, her own goals and dreams.
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Esther, operations manager of angel city national bank, is a token black in middle management at an institution blind to its own racism. With this daring and insightful novel campbell requites the unfulfilled promise of her first book, your blues aint like mine 1992. Your blues aint like mine audiobook, by bebe moore campbell. Whenever i hear someone rave about the help, i suggest they read your blues aint like mine. This book could be especially beneficial in a class on race, law and politics, or race, law, economics and politics, or race, gender and political deconstruction. Chicagoborn armstrong todd is fifteen, black, and not used to the segregated ways of the deep south when his mother sends him to spend the summer with. A novel may be found by selecting the categories below. Although your blues aint like mine is a thirdperson narrative, campbell does not write as an omniscient narrator.
Your blues aint like mine won the naacp image award for best literary work of fiction shipping cost. Describes main themes in the novel and dissects claytons relationship with his father. Emmett till was a 14yearold black chicagoan whose lynching in 1955 in mississippi outraged much of the nation. Her other works include the novel your blues aint like mine, which was a new york. She writes with simple eloquence about smalltown life in the south. The first edition of the novel was published in 1992, and was written by bebe moore campbell. Your blues aint like mine book the new york times bestselling author of 72 hour hold delivers a powerful, awardwinning novel of a racially motivated murder and its. Details claytons evolution from a fearful boy to a strong man. Instead, she works from within the mind of one character after another. Dive deep into bebe moores your blues aint like mine with extended analysis. She lay quiet and still in her bed until her head was full of songs and the strong voices of the fieldworkers from the pinochet plantation seemed to be inside her. Her other works include the novel your blues aint like mine. It has been set up to where men just know they are dominate, and women learn the misconception.
From publishers weekly written in poetic prose, filled with masterfully drawn and sympathetic characters that a less able hand might. She has written the novels your blues aint like mine 1992 and brothers and sisters 1994. Reba peoples on the roots of toxic stress in the african american. Your blues aint like mine 1995 edition open library.
Brewster place is a blind alley feeding into a dead end. Her other works include the novel your blues aint like mine, which was a new york times notable book of the year and the winner of the naacp image award for literature. Describes main themes in the novel and dissects claytons relationship with his. For speaking a few innocuous words in french to a white woman, armstrong pays the ultimate price when her. The tragic event with which the action of this novel begins is the direct result of racism. The novel traces the yeasr from he 50s to the ate 80s, from eisenhower to george bush. This essay is an experiment, seeking to facilitate honest and less defensive discussion about race and gender. Your blues aint like mine mud lake, mississippi, is known for two things. I have noticed that you have used an event in american history that is the product of racial tension as the backdrop for at least two of your books your blues aint like mine, brothers and sisters. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.
The help has good parts, but on the whole your blues aint like mine a novel based on the emmett till murder seems so much more realistic and honest about how horrible conditions were for africanamericans in the 1950s south. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Lily and floyd cox are young marrieds and poor whites in hopewell, mississippi, in 1955. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 448 pages and is available in paperback format. In your blues aint like mine, she shows the horror of how one misunderstanding can affect the lives of. Juneteenth audio boors, the only african american publisher of a full range of african american literature in the audio book format, has released its first book cassette your blues aint like mine. Your blues aint like mine won the naacp image award for best literary work of fiction. Allen and others published your blues aint like my blues. Your blues aint like mine by bebe moore campbell book. The new york times bestseller trina is eighteen and suffers from bipolar disorder, making her paranoid, wild, and violent. In the south for the summer, chicagoborn teen armstrong todd utters a few innocent words to a white woman and. Tell us what do you think about your blues aint like mine.
Download and read free online your blues aint like mine. Directly examining the characters illuminates the racial divide. In the latter part of the book, campbell focuses on the struggles of these two families, and she recounts the. Race, ethnicity, and social inequality in america find, read and cite all the research you need on. Bebe moore campbell was the author of several new york times bestsellers. Now, in her first novel, repercussions are felt for decades in a dozen lives after a racist beating turns to coldblooded murder in a small 1950s mississippi town. Books similar to your blues aint like mine your blues aint like mine. Bebe moore campbell was the author of such national, critically acclaimed bestsellers as brothers and sisters, singing in the comeback choir, your blues aint like mine, and what you owe me as well as the awardwinning childrens book, sometimes my mommy gets angry and the recently published stompin at. Her other nonfiction includes successful women, angry men. Dirden in this play by ruben santiagohudson, set on. Bebe moore campbell a fictionalization of the 1955 emmett till murder, in which a teenage boy from chicago was lynched in mississippi after speaking french in. The main characters of this fiction, cultural story are. Your blues aint like mine, by bebe moore campbell, is the fictionalized account of emmett till, a black teenager from chicago who was lynched for flirting with a white woman. February 18, 1950 november 27, 2006, was an american author, journalist and teacher.