Looking for Jazz
Beschreibung
The book's title, Looking for Jazz, refers to the author's naive assumption that her favorite kind of music will be readily availble at a black college in the south. The book tells the story of Anna, a young white midwestern woman who takes a job teaching at a black college in a small Georgia town in 1968. Her husband is beginning his advanced Army training at Fort Benning. The Vietnam War, voter registration of blacks, forced public school integration, and students' beginning to vote where they attend college provide the political context. Anna enjoys teaching her students as she learns the culture of the region and the college. After four years, her first marriage ends. She begins life with a black Vietnam veteran from the town and they go away to school in Ohio. Anna returns to her job at the college three years later, and the couple remains in the South where they will raise their two sons.
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Prologue. 1967: The Fight for Peace and Freedom
Year One: 1968-1969
1. Landing in Georgia
2. Green, Neon, and Black
3. "How you doin'?"
4. Shakespeare and Ammo
5. Farewell
6. Snakes and Neighbors
7. Collard Greens and Teachers' Desks
8. No More In Loco Parentis
9. Thermofaxes and Alligators
10. A Sikh, the Two-Step, a Geechee, and Jazz
11. "We Shall Overcome"
12. "Ha-ve some?"
13. "The Other America"
14. Scoping
15. Mrs. Lemon and Peewee
16. White Merchants and a Black Ceremony
17. A Raven, a Lion, and a Car
18. Exclusion and Inclusion
19. Anna and Ron Go to a Juke Joint
20. Anna and Scott Attend Church
21. Arson and Influence
22. Grave-Digger Humor
23. The Summer of 1969
Year Two: 1969-1970
24. Year Two Begins
25. Speaking Up
26. Talking with Scientists
27. Mishaps
28. Kick-Off
29. Some White Folks
30. "Mrs. Mitchell looks like a Texian."
31. Fires and Drums
32. My Veterans
33. Seeing Racism
34. Rock Festival
35. Black Lit and Hash
36. War - What Is it Good for?
37. Distance
Year Three: 1970-1971
38. The Student Center Floor
39. Change
40. Rap Session
41. Connecting with Women
42. Trying and Failing
43. The Road to California
44. George Washington to the Rescue Again
Year Four: 1971-1972
45. A Modest Proposal
46. Older but not Much Wiser
47. Mrs. Ida Miller
48. The Next Phase
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
About the author
