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Title: I Hear My People Singing
Subtitle: Voices of African American Princeton
Author: Kathryn Watterson, Cornel West
Narrator: Allyson Johnson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs
Language: English
Release date: 05-09-17
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Genres: History, American
Publisher's Summary:
I Hear My People Singing shines a light on a small but historic black neighborhood at the heart of one of the most elite and internationally renowned Ivy League towns - Princeton, New Jersey. The vivid first-person accounts of more than 50 black residents detail aspects of African American life throughout the 20th century. Their stories show that the roots of Princeton's black community are as deeply intertwined with the town and university as they are with the history of the United States, the legacies of slavery, and the nation's current conversations on race.
Based on an oral history collaboration with residents of the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood and Princeton undergraduates and their professor, Kathryn Watterson, the book features African American residents' candid views about Jim Crow segregation, the mixed blessings of school integration, World Wars I and II, and civil rights struggles. I Hear My People Singing personalizes the struggles and injustices faced by generations of black Princetonians and highlights their remarkable achievements.
Critic Reviews:
"An extraordinary and most necessary book, I Hear My People Singing recasts American history as a whole by presenting in their own words the full lives of black Princetonians, lives forged within the utterly everyday Americanness of enslavement, segregation, and insult." (Nell Irvin Painter, author of The History of White People)
Members Reviews:
Moving and informative
Wonderfully engaging narratives on family, community, faith, personal experiences and racism and how they all formed to develop one of the most iconic small cities in the country. It's a wonderful book.
A truly wonderful book. I have lived in Princeton for the ...
A truly wonderful book. I have lived in Princeton for the past 23 years and this book opened my eyes to all of the black culture that is around me.
Well Worth Reading
Thoughtfully presented; a model combination of narrative and oral history, this book reveals the undercurrent of racism in a university town and explains how small-town closeness encouraged African-Americans many decades ago.
Five Stars
Came of age in Princeton. Knew some of these people as well as descendants of others. Compelling read.
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Title: I Hear My People Singing
Subtitle: Voices of African American Princeton
Author: Kathryn Watterson, Cornel West
Narrator: Allyson Johnson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs
Language: English
Release date: 05-09-17
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Genres: History, American
Publisher's Summary:
I Hear My People Singing shines a light on a small but historic black neighborhood at the heart of one of the most elite and internationally renowned Ivy League towns - Princeton, New Jersey. The vivid first-person accounts of more than 50 black residents detail aspects of African American life throughout the 20th century. Their stories show that the roots of Princeton's black community are as deeply intertwined with the town and university as they are with the history of the United States, the legacies of slavery, and the nation's current conversations on race.
Based on an oral history collaboration with residents of the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood and Princeton undergraduates and their professor, Kathryn Watterson, the book features African American residents' candid views about Jim Crow segregation, the mixed blessings of school integration, World Wars I and II, and civil rights struggles. I Hear My People Singing personalizes the struggles and injustices faced by generations of black Princetonians and highlights their remarkable achievements.
Critic Reviews:
"An extraordinary and most necessary book, I Hear My People Singing recasts American history as a whole by presenting in their own words the full lives of black Princetonians, lives forged within the utterly everyday Americanness of enslavement, segregation, and insult." (Nell Irvin Painter, author of The History of White People)
Members Reviews:
Moving and informative
Wonderfully engaging narratives on family, community, faith, personal experiences and racism and how they all formed to develop one of the most iconic small cities in the country. It's a wonderful book.
A truly wonderful book. I have lived in Princeton for the ...
A truly wonderful book. I have lived in Princeton for the past 23 years and this book opened my eyes to all of the black culture that is around me.
Well Worth Reading
Thoughtfully presented; a model combination of narrative and oral history, this book reveals the undercurrent of racism in a university town and explains how small-town closeness encouraged African-Americans many decades ago.
Five Stars
Came of age in Princeton. Knew some of these people as well as descendants of others. Compelling read.
Would not play
The CD was given as a gift and it would not play on recipients CD player