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- Hush Now, Baby: A Memoir
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Texas A&M University Press
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Hush Now, Baby is the story of how a little white girl climbed out of an uneasy childhood in the segregated South…on the backbone of a black woman who loved her unabashedly. A host of African-American women permeated Southern families. One of those stalwart women was Eva Aiken, a central figure in the author’s life from her birth…until Eva staged a sit-in at the girl’s wedding.
The story captures the glorious early years of the Lowcountry South Carolina family then graphically depicts its unraveling. Eva holds them together. The family and the country’s parallel struggles converge. The author lives in bubble-wrap until Civil Rights issues escalate. This story is told without pathos and with graceful restraint—the Southern way.
“Angela’s prose plunges us back in time when a generation of white children were raised by the calloused hands of slaves who, despite being freed by Lincoln, remained chained to a stubborn way of life. Instead of killing us in our sleep, they became our guardian angels, for reasons still mysteriously misunderstood.” --Ken Burger, author of Swallow Savannah, Sister Santee, Salkehatchie Soup, and Baptized in Sweet Tea.
The story captures the glorious early years of the Lowcountry South Carolina family then graphically depicts its unraveling. Eva holds them together. The family and the country’s parallel struggles converge. The author lives in bubble-wrap until Civil Rights issues escalate. This story is told without pathos and with graceful restraint—the Southern way.
“Angela’s prose plunges us back in time when a generation of white children were raised by the calloused hands of slaves who, despite being freed by Lincoln, remained chained to a stubborn way of life. Instead of killing us in our sleep, they became our guardian angels, for reasons still mysteriously misunderstood.” --Ken Burger, author of Swallow Savannah, Sister Santee, Salkehatchie Soup, and Baptized in Sweet Tea.
Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- p. ix
- Family Tree
- pp. xv-xvii
- Chapter 1: The Wedding
- pp. 1-19
- Chapter 2: The Watermelon Queen
- pp. 20-43
- Chapter 4: Flying High
- pp. 81-117
- Chapter 5: No Time fo' Grievin'
- pp. 118-132
- Chapter 6: Summertime
- pp. 133-150
- Chapter 7: When Father Knew Best
- pp. 151-164
- Photo Gallery
- pp. 165-176
- Chapter 8: Gathering Clouds
- pp. 177-192
- Chapter 9: Eyes Wide Open
- pp. 193-208
- Chapter 10: Blue Skies
- pp. 209-230
- Chapter 11: The Nor'easter
- pp. 231-247
- Chapter 12: Ebb Tide
- pp. 248-261
- Chapter 13: The Undertow
- pp. 262-283
- Chapter 14: Through a Glass Darkly
- pp. 284-307
- Chapter 15: Scales Fall Off
- pp. 308-323
- Acknowledgements
- pp. 330-334
Additional Information
ISBN
9781680030358
Related ISBN(s)
9781680030341
MARC Record
OCLC
926231217
Pages
360
Launched on MUSE
2015-10-25
Language
English
Open Access
No