Penny Mickelbury: Payback, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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"World War II ended less than ten years ago, and the Koren Conflict less than one. But no one has recovered from wartime privations, especially the Colored soldiers who fought a ruthless enemy on foreign lands, expecting to return home with all the rights and privileges of American citizenship. But those rights and privileges remain few and far between, and Mickelbury's cast of characters find themselves reflecting on the Harlem they call home: they are educated and unschooled; wealthy and desperately poor; committed to improving circumstances for Negroes; and abjectly hopeless. They create a family of and for themselves - women, men, children, gays, and the proudly self-named. They commit themselves to helping create a world to benefit their people based on hard work, artistic expression, and faith in their community. They have learned to live in the larger world by the guilding principle, Each One Teach One. But there is a second principle that tempers the first, Harm to One is Harm to All - because in Harlem, payback is always swift and painful"--Provided by publisher.