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Red diapers : growing up in the communist left
- Title
- Red diapers : growing up in the communist left / edited by Judy Kaplan and Linn Shapiro.
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HX83 .R44 1998 | Off-site |
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- Description
- [xi], 320 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Red Diapers is the first collection of autobiographical writings by children of American communists. These first-person memoirs, short stories, and poems reflect red diaper baby experiences spanning generations, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, and geographical areas." "This multi-author account of how it felt and what it meant to grow up Communist in twentieth-century America gives insight into the joys and perils of living in a subculture defined by its opposition to society's most deeply held values. Some of the works speak of fond memories of family activism, others recall a past full of ambivalence and pain. In disparate voices, the contributors elaborate on coming to terms with a political inheritance of radical politics."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Sources.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Memories from the twenties / Peggy Dennis -- California girlhood / Lil Carlson -- From red diapers to protest banners / Ruth Hunter -- Daughter and granddaughter of the Finnish left / Sirkka Tuomi Holm -- Passage to Siberia / Doris C. Kaplan -- The teachings of Karl Marx for boys and girls infiltrates Alabama / Marge Frantz -- An ordinary life / Jeff Lawson -- The old red granny / Mindy Rinkewich -- December 1947 / Marianne Ware -- Commiebastid / Albert Vetere Lannon -- Proletaria and me: a memoir in progress / Dorothy M. Zellner -- Southern discomfort / Maxine Defelice -- Red sisters of the bourgeoisie / Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall and Harriet Fraad -- What did I know and when did I know it? / Sonia Jaffe Robbins -- Black and red all over / Marylouise Patterson -- When life was a party / Stephanie Allan -- Memoir / Rachel Fast Ben-Avi -- Excerpt from pledge of allegiance / Mark Lapin -- What's red hot and what's not: circa 1950s / Norma Allen -- American heritage / Nina Olff -- The little red superego / Gilda Zwerman -- Two poems / Gene Dennis -- Excerpt from in my mother's house / Kim Chernin -- Mistaken identities / David Wellman --
- ISBN
- 0252021614
- 9780252021619
- 0252067258
- 9780252067259
- LCCN
- 98008905
- OCLC
- ocm38281715
- 38281715
- SCSB-14698870
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library