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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461364103321

Autore

Trotter Otis <1954->

Titolo

Keeping heart : a memoir of family struggle, race, and medicine / / Otis Trotter ; introduction by Joe William Trotter Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8214-4544-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Collana

Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia

Disciplina

305.896/073092

Soggetti

African Americans

African American families

Heart - Diseases - Patients - United States

African Americans - Migrations - History - 20th century

Migration, Internal - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

West Virginia Biography

Ohio Biography

Appalachian Region, Southern Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""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""