Growing Up X: A Memoir by the Daughter of Malcolm X - Brossura

Shabazz, Ilyasah

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ISBN 10: 0345444965 ISBN 13: 9780345444967

Casa editrice: Random House Publishing Group, 2003

Riassunto

A moving memoir of coming of age describes growing up fatherless as the daughter of the legendary Malcolm X, assassinated when she was two years old, her mother's determination to protect her children from the barrage of media, her discovery of her father's contributions, and life in the Shabazz household, from sibling rivalry to first boyfriends to her education. Reprint.

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“Only Ilyasah Shabazz could have told this story. . . . I congratulate her on the courage to remember, the courage to see, and the courage to say what she saw.”
–MAYA ANGELOU

“AN INTIMATE LOOK AT THE MAN WHO BOTH REVOLUTIONIZED AND NATIONALIZED THE COLLECTIVE BLACK PSYCHE. A cultural deity is rendered by his daughter’s clear-sighted portrait.”
–BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL
Author of Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine and What You Owe Me

“IT OFFERS CANDID INSIGHTS INTO THE LIVES OF ILYASAH AND HER SISTERS.”
–Ebony

L'autore:

Ilyasah Shabazz holds a Master of Science degree in Education and Human Resource Development from Fordham University. She is the Director of Public Affairs and Special Events for the City of Mount Vernon, New York.

Kim McLarin is the author of the novels Taming It Down and Meeting of the Waters. She formerly worked as a journalist for The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Associated Press. She lives with her family outside of Boston, Mass.

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• Editore: Random House Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0345444965
• ISBN 13: 9780345444967
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272