He Included Me: The Autobiography of Sarah Rice

by Sarah Rice, Louise Westling (Editor)

Overview

A rare first-person account of life in the twentieth-century South, He Included Me weaves together the story of a black family—eight children reared in rural Alabama, their mother a schoolteacher, their father a minister—and the emerging self-portrait of a woman determined, like her parents, to look ahead.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780820343563
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Publication date:	10/07/2020
Series:	Brown Thrasher Books Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Sarah Rice (Author)
SARAH RICE (1909–2006) lived and worked in Alabama and Florida, holding jobs as a teacher and a domestic maid and cook. She was also active throughout her life in state and local church activities. Rice told the story of her life to Louise H. Westling, the daughter of one of her former employers and now a professor emerita of English at the University of Oregon.

Louise H. Westling (Editor)
LOUISE H. WESTLING is a professor of English at the University of Oregon. She is the author or editor of several books, including Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens.

Editorial Reviews

Sarah Rice, a thrice-married, often impoverished black school teacher in the segregated rural schools of the South, tells a compelling, instructive, and otherwise unavailable story. It provides insight into black women struggling with the world of black males as well as with contemporary American society.

Choice

A moving autobiography. . . . Her unadorned but colorful narrative style is an unremitting delight, particularly for readers raised in the South.

Orlando Sentinel

A unique contribution to a growing history of African American women.

Atlanta History

In the oral history tradition of Theodore Rosengarten's All God's Dangers, which related the hardships of a black sharecropper in Alabama, Louise Westling's He Included Me reconstructs the difficult but dignified life of a black woman in Alabama and Florida during a large part of the twentieth century. It's a moving story that reveals a hidden corner of American life.

New York Times

A moving autobiography. . . . Her unadorned but colorful narrative style is an unremitting delight, particularly for readers raised in the South.

Orlando Sentinel