Böcker av Sharony Green

This book chronicles a University of Alabama historian's efforts to engage public history over the course of a decade, highlighting personal and educational experiences inside and outside of the classroom.

Sharony Green presents the story of Delores, a little girl who makes discoveries in a fancy New York City apartment owned by Miss Oona Levine, a well-known fashion designer. Delores visits the apartment with her aunt who is an unemployed actor working on the side as Miss Oona's housekeeper. One day, the aunt receives a long-awaited audition, Miss Oona steps in to babysit Delores. The day is memorable one because of the time they spend together -- and the good news Delores' aunt receives about her audition.

"The author recovers an understudied but important period in Zora Neale Hurston's life: her 1947-48 stay in Honduras. Hurston - an anthropologist by training - was officially searching for a "lost" Maya ruin. But the author argues that Hurston was also engaged in a much more personal project: in escaping the Jim Crow south to Central America, she was able to sidestep wearying conversations about race in the United States, while still embracing her privilege (and power) as a citizen of the United States in postwar Central America"--

Presents case studies with evidence from surviving letters that indicate a kind of "love" existing between the ex-slave mistress and her former master. The author follows the journey of these women and children from the south to Cincinnati, which had the largest per capita population outside the South during the antebellum period.