Can Anything Beat White?
Subtitle: A Black Family's Letters (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies)
Contributors: Elisabeth Petry (Editor); Farah Jasmine Griffin (Introduction)
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: October 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781578067855
Subjects: General; United States - General; Literary Collections; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; African American novelists; Novelists, American; Biography / Autobiography; Letters; Literature: Classics; History; Family relationships; People of Color; African American families; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Sources; 20th century
First sentence: Willis S. James's only legacy to his children and grandchildren from his years as a slave was a nursery rhyme that he sang as he bounced them on his knee, "Run, little baby, run.