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Title Paris in America : a deaf Nanticoke shoemaker and his daughter / Clara Jean Mosley Hall with Gayle Williamson
Subject Hall, Clara Jean Mosley, 1953-
Nanticoke Indians -- Delaware -- Biography
Children of deaf parents -- Delaware -- Biography
African Americans -- Delaware -- Biography
African Americans.
Children of deaf parents.
Nanticoke Indians.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Add'l Author Williamson, Gayle, 1966- author
Description 1 online resource (xxii, 212 pages) : illustrations
Summary "A memoir about a hearing daughter of a Deaf Nanticoke Indian, who grew up in Dover, Delaware's black community in the 1950s and 60s"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Author's Note; Preface; Part 1; Carnage; Ancestry; What's In a Name; Separation; Hit and Run; Being a Man; She's Gone; Part 2; Life Goes On; Helping Out; Who Was That Woman?; The Wilsons; Preparation for School; Mud Pies; Work and Wait; The Divorce; Clink, Clink, Clink: Interpreting Sounds Not So Silent and Other Things; Social Changes; Now Daddy's Leaving Too?!; Part 3; Too Big For My Britches; Fun Times; I Am More Than My Hair; Integration; Hanging Out; Mrs. Parker; Time for Change; She's Back; Part 4; Building Confidence; The Power of Support
College GirlTo College and Beyond; Miracles Do Come True; Expect the Unexpected; Paradise; The Real World; Another Test; Our Bundle of Joy; Jamaica Again, Really!; Mr. Mandela; The Nursing Home Blues; The Call; The Stork Strikes Again; Another Move; Where We Are Now; Afterword; Acknowledgments; References
Note Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 27, 2018)
ISBN 9781944838362 electronic book
1944838368 electronic book
9781944838355
194483835X
OCLC # 1062396213