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By Kitty Oliver
A telling memoir via an exhilarating new voice, Multicolored stories of a Black Southern Girl explores journalist Kitty Oliver's coming of age as she makes the crossing from an all-black to a predominantly white world.
Born and raised in an all-black zone of Jacksonville, Florida, Oliver was once one of many first African American newcomers to go into the collage of Florida. notwithstanding she chronicles the lines of her transition from Jim Crow to desegregation, this booklet is way greater than a memoir of the turbulent sixties. it really is an upbeat magazine of self-discovery within the aftermath of that decade, a glance at one woman's coming to phrases with residing an built-in lifestyles in the US. With humor, poignancy, and lyrical language (reminiscent from time to time of one other Florida author, Zora Neale Hurston), Oliver stocks her passage from the "old global" to the new―an immigrant's trip indicative of the yank experience.
Blending previous and current, she searches for roots from the Gullah or "Geechee" tradition of South Carolina to the city streets of northern Florida to the multicultural mixture of South Florida's assorted ethnic cultures, serving up kin tales with huge helpings of southern "folktalk," nutrition, and track alongside the best way.
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After a minute, he gently shoved me off, saying he was tired. I tried once more. "I got lost at the store today," the words spilled out. He was wide awake now. "I got lost looking for her, and the man in the store found me," I explained, getting more and more excited with the telling. " He was calling out toward the kitchen to his wife. The bickering bounced back and forth between the two rooms. " I beamed-until he shoved me away to her. My step-grandmother was making magic on the countertop and stove just a few inches above my head.
Parading in front of my gallery of stars, I practiced knock-kneed walking in a fishtail evening gown like Lana Turner for the day when I would be in the movies or performing for an audience. In the real world, my single mother shopped 24 l(~ MULTICOLORED MEMORIES At two years old, 1950. on five-dollar-a-week layaway at May Cohen's and Diana's, struggling to raise her only child in a two-parent community. Later I struggled to climb the black social ladder but never got near the top. I remember being shuttled from the projects to relatives to strange apartments.
My head bobbed not much higher than a grown-up's knees. A flurry of calf-length dresses swept past me quickly, and every set of feet seemed to wear pumps or ankle-strapped heels. I did not think I would ever be able to pick out the sound of my stepgrandmother's high-heels in the midst of that swirl of activity. We got back from downtown just in time for me to get washed, dressed, and ready at 4:30, when my grandfather trudged in. His usual gruffness turned gentle with me. " I waited until we were ensconced in front of the television to climb onto his lap for his attention.