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The Resource Men we reaped : a memoir, Jesmyn Ward

Men we reaped : a memoir, Jesmyn Ward

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In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life--to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the dying, she realized the truth--and it took her breath away. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were from, because they lived with a history of racism and economic struggle that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family and relationships. Jesmyn grew up in poverty in rural Mississippi. She writes powerfully about the pressures this brings, on the men who can do no right and the women who stand in for family in a society where the men are often absent. She bravely tells her story, revisiting the agonizing losses of her only brother and her friends
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eng
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1 online resource.
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9781608197576
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Men we reaped : a memoir
Title
Men we reaped
Title remainder
a memoir
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Jesmyn Ward
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Language
eng
Summary
In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life--to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the dying, she realized the truth--and it took her breath away. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were from, because they lived with a history of racism and economic struggle that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family and relationships. Jesmyn grew up in poverty in rural Mississippi. She writes powerfully about the pressures this brings, on the men who can do no right and the women who stand in for family in a society where the men are often absent. She bravely tells her story, revisiting the agonizing losses of her only brother and her friends
Biography type
autobiography
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Ward, Jesmyn
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non fiction
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  • Ward, Jesmyn
  • African American women authors
  • Rural poor
  • African American men
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Men we reaped : a memoir, Jesmyn Ward
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Extent
1 online resource.
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online
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9781608197576
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(electronic bk.)
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computer
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rdamedia
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  • (OCoLC)858912927
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  • 969755
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Men we reaped : a memoir, Jesmyn Ward
Link
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource.
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781608197576
Isbn Type
(electronic bk.)
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
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4200a972-98c7-4d3f-9e2b-f7e13c9000de
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not applicable
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unknown
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unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
  • (OCoLC)858912927
  • (OCoLC)ocn858912927
  • 969755

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