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 Format: Hardcover, 285 pages
Publisher: Pantheon Books
ISBN: 037542069X
| |  | | | From The Publisher
A profoundly courageous and insightful memoir, An American Story documents the events that have shaped journalist Debra Dickerson's conscience.
The daughter of former sharecroppers, Dickerson never imagined she would emerge from her squalid St. Louis neighborhood to become an acclaimed journalist with a Harvard Law degree. A constant reader and a straight-A student, nevertheless Dickerson's lack of confidence kept her from accepting the many colleges offers she received. Instead she enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, quickly rising through the ranks. In spite of her success, she recognized within herself deep-seated conflict at being a working class black woman living in a white man's world. Her path to self-acceptance is at the heart of this refreshing narrative.
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
The author's candid explanation of how, as a self-made black woman with conservative leanings, she grew to understand what it means to live as part of a race and class that is given little room for error.|
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Dickerson's memoir is a remarkable document that illuminates brightly features of American society that many people would just as soon ignore, if not hide. Her honesty will get her into trouble. Her insight will win her a broad audience.
—author of Race, Crime, and the Law —Randall Kennedy
A landmark. . . . An landmark Story is at once a brilliant account of a singular human being and of her participation in her cultural, social, and racial context.
—W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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Dickerson, Debra J.,, 1959-, Journalists, United States, Biography, Blacks In The U.S., Women In The U.S., Biography / Autobiography, Biography & Autobiography, People of Color, Women
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