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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Marsha Dean Phelts |
ISBN: | 9780813035086 0813035082 |
OCLC Number: | 457151286 |
Notes: | "First paperback printing, 2010"--Title page verso. |
Description: | xii, 188 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
Responsibility: | Marsha Dean Phelts. |
Reviews
Publisher Synopsis
"This is a lively story of a place marked by community, sociability and food, where generations of families found an oasis from racism." - Publishers Weekly "The vivid, personal story of American Beach, a coastal community on Amelia Island in northeastern Florida... blends oral history with never-before-collected documents dating back to the turn of the century, including photographs, historical records, and even recipes for such local favorites as Daddy Charlie's Jamaican Con Pollo." - Preservation "More than a study of African American recreation, the book provides insight into the self-sufficient African American communities that were commonplace in the days of Jim Crow and their ultimate decline after desegregation." - Alabama Review "Marsha Dean Phelts uses facts, photographs, profiles, memories and recipes to tell a story as intimate as the epics we enjoy over pie and coffee. It's less a book about racial discrimination than it is a story of the consequences for the people of a particular community and their triumph over confinement." - Tampa Tribune" Read more...

