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Being Somebody and Black Besides - An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life (Hardcover)
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Being Somebody and Black Besides - An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life (Hardcover)
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The late Chicagoan George Nesbitt could perhaps best be described
as an ordinary man with an extraordinary gift for storytelling. In
his newly uncovered memoir-written fifty years ago, yet never
published-he chronicles in vivid and captivating detail the story
of how his upwardly-mobile Midwestern Black family lived through
the tumultuous twentieth century. Spanning three generations,
Nesbitt's tale starts in 1906 with the Great Migration and ends
with the Freedom Struggle in the 1960s. He describes his parents'
journey out of the South, his struggle against racist military
authorities in World War II, the promise and peril of Cold War
America, the educational and professional accomplishments he strove
for and achieved, the lost faith in integration, and, despite every
hardship, the unwavering commitment by three generations of Black
Americans to fight for a better world. Through all of it-with his
sharp insights, nuance, and often humor-we see a family striving to
lift themselves up in a country that is working to hold them down.
Nesbitt's memoir includes two insightful forewords: one by John
Gibbs St. Clair Drake (1911-90), a pioneer in the study of African
American life, the other a contemporary rumination by noted Black
studies scholar Imani Perry. A rare first-person, long-form
narrative about Black life in the twentieth century, Being Somebody
and Black Besides is a remarkable literary-historical time capsule
that will delight modern readers.
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