Research Catalog

Title

Travels with Mae : scenes from a New Orleans girlhood / Eileen M. Julien.

Author

Julien, Eileen, 1949-

Publication

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009.

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Details

Description

viii, 129 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.

Subjects

• History
• Biographies
• 1900-1999
• New Orleans (La.) > Race relations > History > 20th century
• New Orleans (La.) > Social life and customs > 20th century
• New Orleans (La.) > Biography
• Julien, Eileen, 1949- > Family
• Julien, Eileen, 1949- > Childhood and youth
• African Americans > Louisiana > New Orleans > Biography
• African American women > Louisiana > New Orleans > Biography
• Mothers and daughters > Louisiana > New Orleans
• Middle class > Louisiana > New Orleans > Biography
• Community life > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

What I Keep in My Freezer; or You Are What You Eat -- Routines -- Oatmeal Collage -- A Streetcar Story -- A Glimmer of Gender -- Going to Algiers -- "Buttons, anyone?" A Pacific Street Story -- Room at the Top -- Connie -- The Jugs' Ball -- "The Country" -- Facts of Life -- Money Troubles -- Fudge and Jelly Donuts -- The Shadow of Death -- A Woman's Place -- Brother Boyfriends -- The House They Didn't Buy -- Family Affairs -- She Would Have Typed All Night -- Small Victories -- Daddy's Public Voice -- Hurricane Betsy -- Groovin' -- Christmas '66 -- My Mother, My Hair -- Getting Over It -- Eunice, Mae, and Me -- Man from the South -- Questions of Power -- Losing Mae -- Arriving Late -- Daddy's Gumbo -- Conversation -- Reflections -- Revisiting -- Birthday Surprise -- Dakar Hair -- The Carnival Spirit -- Katrina -- The Wake of the Storm -- The Keys.

ISBN

• 9780253353160 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0253353165 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008055800

OCLC

• 261176961
• SCSB-12251431

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library