Chasing me to my grave an artist's memoir of the Jim Crow South
"A self-taught artist's odyssey from Jim Crow era Georgia to the Yale Art Gallery--a stunningly vivid, full-color memoir in prose and painted leather, with a foreword by Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson. Winfred Rembert grew up as a field hand on a Georgia plantation. He embraced the...
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New York :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword by Bryan Stevenson
- Preface
- Walking to my mother
- From cain't to cain't
- Hamilton Avenue
- The everyday lie
- Doll's head baseball
- In deep
- A man don't know what he can go through
- Reidsville State Prison
- Finding Patsy
- The chain gang
- Out of the ditch
- Becoming a leather man
- Bridgeport docks and projects
- A good, bad man
- Patsy's story
- I had to scuffle
- Life on leather
- A thinking man's thing
- Homecoming
- Searching for the riverbanks.
