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Summer snow

reflections from a Black daughter of the South

by Trudier Harris-Lopez, Trudier Harris · 2003

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Trudier HarrisSummer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the SouthOne of our foremost scholars of African American literature offers a collection of poignant autobiographical essays on being SouthernTrudier Harris will tell you that African Americans who consider themselves Southern are about as rare as summer snow. But Harris has always embraced the South, and in Summer Snow she explores her experience as a black Southerner and how it has shaped her into the writer and intellectual she has become.

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