Touch of Innocence A Memoir of Childhood

Name: Touch of Innocence A Memoir of Childhood
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ISBN: 9780226171128

ISBN-10: 0226171124

ISBN-13: 9780226171128

Edition: 1994

Authors: Katherine Dunham

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An internationally known dancer, choreographer, and gifted anthropologist, Katherine Dunham was born to a black American tailor and a well-to-do French Canadian woman twenty years his senior. This book is Dunham's story of the chaos and conflict that entered her childhood after her mother's early death. In stark prose, she tells of growing up in both black and white households and of the divisions of race and class in Chicago that become the harsh realities of her young life. A riveting narrative of one girl's struggle to transcend the painful confusions of a family and culture in turmoil, Dunham's story is full of the clarity, candor, and intelligence that lifted her above her troubled…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/1/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 0.52" wide x 0.81" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English




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