Blue as the Lake
A Personal Geography
by Robert B. Stepto
Blue as the Lake maps out an African-American landscape unique in American literature. From Idlewild, the black resort near Lake Michigan, where the young Robert Stepto vacationed with his grandparents, to Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, the author traces a history of generations finding and making a home.
These stories of migration take the author and his ancestors from Washington to Missouri. Chicago to Massachusetts. Their family lore careens through American history - we meet a black regiment in World War I; the legendary jazz musician Coleman Hawkins; and Inabel Burns, pioneering feminist and great-granddaughter of slaves. In their attachments to place. Stepto's stories claim a multiracial and national heritage.
Beautifully and intimately rendered, they offer a meditation on what it means to be American.
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Biography, African Americans, Social life and customs, Childhood and youth, SOCIAL SCIENCE, African American Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Historical, Ethnic Studies, African americans, biography, African americans, social life and customs, Michigan, biography, Chicago (ill.), biography, Baltimore (md.), African american families, African american childrenPeople
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Blue as the Lake: A Personal Geography
September 15, 1999, Beacon Press
Paperback
in English
- New Ed edition
0807009458 9780807009451
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