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		<description><![CDATA[After I finished, I noticed a similar book near the top of my reading pile, "Black, White, and Jewish," by Rebecca Walker. Previously, I might have rejected it on the premise that one memoir about mixed-race parents was enough. But now, I was eager to learn more.  "Black, White, and Jewish" turned out to be invigorating, another excellent read, and another window into one of my favorite topics, an individual's search for identity. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-genre/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>His relationship to girls changed in this scene</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Henry Louis Gates grew up in a small town in West Virginia in the 1950s where he was taught he shouldn't associate with girls until he married one. Then a fractured hip landed him in a hospital in a university town 60 miles away. During his protracted stay, with his leg suspended in traction, he was befriended by a minister who let him in on the good news that in some forms of Christianity, God and girls can peacefully coexist. By the time his hip healed, his mind had opened to a more liberal set of rules than the ones he had been taught as a child. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/ideas-change-memoirs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Self-image changes in step with society</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jerry Waxler Henry Louis Gates, author of the memoir &#8220;Colored People,&#8221; grew up in Piedmont, a small town in the northeastern corner of West Virginia. The town was geographically in a hollow, and through the eyes of a child, &#8230; <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/self-image-in-society/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<itunes:summary>"No person is an island" - we are on our individual life journey in company with society. Review this memoir to see how your story relates to the world.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Good hair in the melting pot</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My dark brown hair grew longer, and curled into a tangle that looked vaguely like an Afro. Home from the University of Wisconsin that first summer of 1966, my great-uncle Ben, with whom I had always got along, said "I didn't know we had anything like that in the family." We never spoke civilly to each other again. Back at school in Madison, Wisconsin the following year, some boys drove to campus to beat up kids who looked like me. They jumped out of their car, threw me to the ground and kicked me for a while to let me know that long hair was against the American way. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/hair-in-the-melting-pot/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<itunes:summary>My dark brown hair grew longer, and curled into a tangle that looked vaguely like an Afro. Home from the University of Wisconsin that first summer of 1966, my great-uncle Ben, with whom I had always got along, said "I didn't know we had anything like that in the family." We never spoke civilly to each other again. Back at school in Madison, Wisconsin the following year, some boys drove to campus to beat up kids who looked like me. They jumped out of their car, threw me to the ground and kicked me for a while to let me know that long hair was against the American way.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Blind veteran finds his voice by writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 10:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I came back from Vietnam I wasn't doing too well, and writing the memoir helped me organize my thoughts. Putting my thoughts on paper was elevating for me. It was quite therapeutic. I needed it at the time, especially those times that were not the best for me. When I began to write it had a tendency to take away my thoughts, and I could drift back to my childhood days and think of things that I could probably have done a little bit better. It was just exciting to be able to see what I have accomplished in writing. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/blind-warrior-finds-his-voice-by-writing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>60&#8242;s Nostalgia  memoirs of growing up black</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both of these books are about growing up poor and black in the segregated south. That's proof that what was incredibly boring and mundane while you were living it as a child can years later become fascinating in your memoir. If the reader has never experienced that side of life, it gives a window into something they didn't know. If the reader did experience those things, the book can evoke nostalgia, that fascinating emotion that transports us into our own memories. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/60s-nostalgia-memoirs-of-growing-up-black/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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