Bigmama Didn't Shop at Woolworth's

By Sunny Nash

Bigmama didn't shop at Woolworth's. It wasn't because Woolworth's charged more for things than the hawker who drove through the neighborhood; it was because black shoppers were not welcome in stores... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890967164
• ISBN13: 9780890967164
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 6.2"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful peek at recent history

I used to read Sunny Nash's column in the Bryan-College Station Eagle. It was my favorite part of that paper and I was saddened when she left. Bigmama Didn't Shop at Woolworth's is an amazing look back at what for some Americans -- either for our age or our background -- is an unknown history.

A change of perspective and a great read in one book.

Every White person in America should read this book! Sunny Nash writes the story of her childhood without preaching or ranting but she made me realize for the first time just how much skin color changes how one experiences the world. When she was just three years old her grandmother taught her how to read 'colored' and 'white only' because that was a survival skill just as important as 'Don't get in a car with strangers.' The book is remarkable. I was taught, and I teach, that skin color doesn't matter any more than hair color. But, if your skin color is brown, it matters a great deal to a great number of people. I needed to learn that, Sunny Nash is a great teacher.