Being Somebody and Black Besides: An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life

by George B. Nesbitt

Zeb Larson BA ’10 coedits George B. Nesbitt’s immersive multigenerational memoir that recounts the hopes, injustices, and triumphs of a Black family fighting for access to the American dream in the 20th century. University of Chicago Press, 2021. 360 pages.

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Date of publication: 2021
• Format: 360 pages
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