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Volunteer Slavery |
| My Authentic Negro Experience |
by Jill Nelson, Noble Press
ISBN: 014023716X
Pub. Date: July 1994
ISBN-13: 9780140237160
Format: Paperback, pp. 244
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Sales Rank: 366,249
List Price: $16.00 |
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| Volunteer Slavery, Jill Nelson, 014023716X |
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When Jill Nelson became the first black woman to write for The Washington
Post's prestigious Sunday magazine in 1986, she thought she had entered
journalism heaven. Instead, she discovered that life at The Post meant walking
"the thin line between Uncle Tomming and Mau-Mauing" - between holding onto her
job and preserving her soul.
As Nelson recounts her harrowing four years at The Post - along with her
odyssey from a middle-class childhood to near poverty, divorce and single
motherhood, flame-out love affairs, and a nervous breakdown - she gives us a
scalding expose of the racial, sexual, and corporate politics of one of our
most respected newspapers. Volunteer Slavery is a funny, fiercely candid book
that names names and takes no prisoners.
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