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We Flew Over the Bridge: The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold.(Book review)
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The Journal of African American History
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June 22, 2006
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2006 Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Faith Ringgold, We Flew Over the Bridge: The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. 304. Paper $24.95.
In We Flew Over the Bridge, New York-born artist Faith Ringgold provides juicy autobiographical stories, supplemented with personal photographs as well as ample illustrations and descriptions of her work. It is a memoir every artist should read. It discusses her early life and family, her marriages, her struggles to produce art and to find her voice, her first dealings with the owner of a New York gallery, and the difficulty people of color and women artists had during the 1960s and 1970s getting into major museums and other important artists' ...
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