We are bridges : a memoir /

Lane, Cassandra, 1971-

We are bridges : a memoir / Cassandra Lane. - First feminist press edition. - 243 pages ; 21 cm

"Cassandra Lane's debut memoir WE ARE BRIDGES follows her late entry into pregnancy and motherhood. As she prepares to give birth, she traces the history of her Black American family in the early twentieth-century rural South, including the lynching of her great-grandfather, Burt Bridges, and the pregnancy of her great-grandmother, Mary. With almost no physical record of her ancestors, Cassandra crafts a narrative of familial love and loss to pass on to her child, rescuing the story of her family from erasure"--

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Lane, Cassandra, 1971-


African American mothers--Southern States--Biography.
African American families--Southern States.
Lynching--Southern States.
Resilience (Personality trait)--Southern States.


Biographies.

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