Keeping Heart A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine

Name: Keeping Heart A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine
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ISBN: 9780821421895

ISBN-10: 0821421891

ISBN-13: 9780821421895

Edition: 2015

Authors: Otis Trotter, Joe William Trotter Jr.

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"After saying our good-byes to friends and neighbors, we all got in the cars and headed up the hill and down the road toward a future in Ohio that we hoped would be brighter,” Otis Trotter writes in his affecting memoir, Keeping Heart: A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine.Organized around the life histories, medical struggles, and recollections of Trotter and his thirteen siblings, the story begins in 1914 with his parents, Joe William Trotter Sr. and Thelma Odell Foster Trotter, in rural Alabama. By telling his story alongside the experiences of his parents as well as his siblings, Otis reveals cohesion and tensions in twentieth-century African American family and community life…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication date: 9/15/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Joe William Trotter Jr., is Giant Eagle Professor of History and Social Justice, Carnegie Mellon University, and author of Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia.