Keeping Heart : A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine.

By:

Trotter, Otis

Contributor(s):

Trotter Jr., Joe William

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia SeriesPublisher: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (238 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780821445440

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Keeping HeartDDC classification:

305.896/073092 B

LOC classification:

E185.97.T745 -- A3 2015eb

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Contents:

Intro -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1: Memories of Parents and Places -- 2: Troubled Waters of Vallscreek -- 3: The Newcomers -- 4: New Lease on Life -- 5: Life on the Avenue / Bitter and Sweet -- 6: Navigating Heart Disease as a Teenager -- 7: College and Career -- 8: The Struggle Continues.

Summary: Organized around the life histories, medical struggles, and recollections of Otis Trotter and his thirteen siblings, Keeping Heart is a personal account of an African American family's journey north during the second Great Migration.

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Organized around the life histories, medical struggles, and recollections of Otis Trotter and his thirteen siblings, Keeping Heart is a personal account of an African American family's journey north during the second Great Migration.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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