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Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi Part 1: Narrated Lives 1. Nine Narratives 3 Jane Elmire Margaret Sidney Harriet Maggie Zora Frieda Mae Part II: Interpreting A Woman's Life 2. "The Exception of the Exceptions": African 65 American Women in Higher Education 3. Climbing the Ladder of Success from the 87 Bottom Rung: African American Women in the Professions 4. African American Women's Oral Narratives as 113 Autobiography: The Care and Feeding of "Mongrel Offspring" 5. Nappy at the Root: Speaking/Writing a 155 Woman's Life 6. Telling a Little Story: Organization and 177 Structure in African American Women's Oral Narratives Notes 203 Works Cited 207 Index 211