How is this "a journalist's memoir"?
What are the qualities of the writing? Can we identify conventions from the discipline/profession (journalism) or genre (memoir)? What is your affective response to it? (glossary terms) (what do we need to chronicle today) How is it different from Suberman's memoir so far? Quotes from groups: "We were postwar adolescents who learned to doubt the idea that making money was the poetry of life-- uncertain because our parents gave us the luxury of uncertainty."(pg. 31) "...no different in the Jewish South, for every immigrant wanted his son to live a better life than he had lived. In the North, however, Jewish tailors sweated over the steam press to get their sons out; in the south, the small store owners worked to build a place to keep their sons home." (pg. 29) "We were the only large store that would cash a Negro's paycheck...even if he didn't buy anything; the first store in town to carry black bride dolls; the first to do away with 'white' and 'colored' signs on the water fountains..." (pg. 27-28) "My parents were one generation away from the immigrant experience but the values of the immigrant experience were forged deep within them" (pg. 29) "yet the story of Jews in the south is the story of fathers who built businesses to give to their sons who didn't want them..." "He had received overwhelming support from the black precincts, and ads began to appear in the paper asking, "Who will choose your city servants? The Political Bosses, the Negro Bloc?or...You!" and "What has Evans promised the Negro Bloc?" (pg. 7) "Ironically, Buck Duke, who once drove the Jews away from Durham, built a university that brought them back--this time as doctors and interns at Duke Hospital and as professors and graduate students on campus." (pg. 19)
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