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Arresting Prose And A Provocative Conclusion - Challenging The Idea That Our Destinies Are Fundamentally Linked To Race - Distinguish This Memoir Of Growing Up Black In The American Midwest In The Turbulent 1930s And 1960s. Set In An Ohio Steel Town And An Exclusive, Upstate New York Private University, Dancing With Strangers Is An Evocative Remembrance Of An American's Coming Of Age During The Decade Preceding The Sixties' Revolutionary Transformation Of American Society. A Dramatic, Novelistically Rendered Account, It Is The Story Of An Individual's Triumphant Struggle For Personal Identity During An Era When Conformity, Class, Race, And Political Xenophobia Dominated The American Landscape. Watkins's Family Fled Tennessee For Ohio Before He Was Born, When His Father Pistol-whipped A White Neighbor Who Attacked One Of His Sons. In Dancing With Strangers, Watkins Looks Back Upon His Own Life In The Midst Of The Nation's Roiling Social Currents During The Tumultuous Times When Brown V. The Board Of Education And The Civil Rights Movement Took Hold. Whether Watkins Is Writing About His Combative Father's Furious, If Sometimes Misguided, Struggles To Exert His Manhood; His Parents' C

Author

Watkins, Mel

Publisher

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780684808642

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir