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Maya Angelou
Although the last third of the book focuses on her adolescence California in her parents’ separate households, most of it centers on her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, with her idolized brother Bailey, her strong and capable grandmother Momma, and her crippled Uncle Willie. It is revealing narrative of growing up black and female in the rural South of the 1930’s.
In her keynote address, Dr. Suzanne Jones of the University of Richmond pointed out that, while anyone who grows up in the South must contend with the way in which the life of the individual is complexly tied to the community and the limits it places, in Angelou’s account black women faced unique problems even beyond racial relations; from the prejudice of men to the way in which white women were free to mold and even change a black woman’s identity to suit her purposes.
Angelou, who calls herself Marjorie in the book, recalls one of her early jobs as a maid in a white woman’s house, practically the only position available to a black woman. Soon after arriving, her employer asked her to perform a task, calling her by the name Mary. The older maid in the household, Glory, said, “You mean Marjorie. Her name’s Marjorie.” The white woman’s response--“No, she’s Mary. That other
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