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1 online resource |
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Public observations, private conversations -- Watching and remembering -- The chasm that separated our world -- Standing alone, surrounded by history -- An unexpected invitation -- Uneasy moments, lingering thoughts -- Bearing witness to the possibilities -- Bearing the burden of history -- Invisible people -- Once forbidden -- On the inside, looking out -- Our bridge to cross -- A familiar place -- Private conversations -- Our shared reality : the final divide -- The epilogue. |
| Summary |
When international lecturer Clifton Taulbert receives an unexpected invitation to supper in Allendale, South Carolina, he brings with him Little Cliff, the colored boy from the Mississippi Delta who is also Clifton Taulbert, carrying all he was taught as a child about staying "in his place" and surviving in the Jim Crow South. Transported back into a setting that looks and feels like the cotton fields and shotgun shacks of his childhood, Taulbert finds himself expected to cross racial barriers he would have been forbidden to cross before. The Invitation is the story of the man and the little boy inside him wrestling with a past they both know so well, while stepping into a future that is still being determined. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Taulbert, Clifton L. -- Travel -- South Carolina -- Allendale.
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Taulbert, Clifton L. |
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African Americans -- Travel -- South Carolina -- Allendale.
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Lectures and lecturing -- South Carolina -- Allendale.
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African American authors -- Biography.
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Allendale (S.C.) -- Race relations.
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White people -- South Carolina -- Allendale -- Attitudes.
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African Americans -- Race identity -- Southern States.
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African Americans -- Segregation -- Southern States.
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Racism -- Southern States -- Psychological aspects.
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Southern States -- Race relations.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs. |
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African American authors |
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African Americans -- Race identity |
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African Americans -- Segregation |
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African Americans -- Travel |
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Lectures and lecturing |
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Race relations |
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Racism -- Psychological aspects |
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Travel |
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White people -- Attitudes |
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South Carolina -- Allendale |
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Southern States |
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Biography
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Print version: Taulbert, Clifton L. Invitation 9781588383075 (DLC) 2013048608 (OCoLC)869457913 |
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9781603063517 (electronic bk.) |
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160306351X (electronic bk.) |
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9781588383075 |
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1588383075 |
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