That Mean Old Yesterday: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (887 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 074329310X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Stacey Patton is currently a graduate student pursuing her PhD in history at Rutgers University. . To learn more about Stacey Patton visit staceypatton. She resides in New York. She has written for The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, New York Newsday, and magazine and is the recipient of numerous journalism awards and academic honors. She is also a professor at Montclair State University
Or so she thought. Now in her beautiful memoir, Stacey links her experience to the legacy of American slavery and successfully frames her understanding of why her good adoptive parents did terrible things to her by realizing they had terrible things done to them.. An astonishing coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who survived the foster care system to become an award-winning journalist On a rainy night in November 1999, a shoeless Stacey Patton, promising student at NYU, approached her adoptive parents' house with a gun in her hand. After all, with God-fearing, house-proud, and hardworking adoptive parents, she appeared to beat the odds. But her mother was tyrannical, and her father turned a blind eye to the years of abuse his wife heaped on their love-starved little girl. No one would ever imagine that the vibrant, smart, and attractive St
"a painful truth that needs to be heard" according to Blue Lotus. There are few books that have touched me like this one did. It is a book that will stay on your mind after you read it and make you think. Stacey is an extraordinary writer, when you read her story you can truly feel the pain the little girl went through, and that is exactly why the book is sometimes very hard to read. It shows you the raw, uncut truth about what goes on inside the head of someone who is abused. I find it amazing how Stacey is able to tell her story with such clarity and perceptio. "Patton's Journey Through Hell" according to Brian Hawkinson. That Mean Old Yesterday was an extremely interesting and engaging read. From the beginning I was drawn in, jaw dropped in disbelief and horror at the life she lived as a child. I have no experience with child abuse, and like she said the little bit I do know was from an article in the newspaper or on the internet, never anything as in depth and revealing as her life's story.Coupling her story are alternating history chapters on slavery and racism that directly lead into each chapter about her. The. "A Must Read!!!" according to E. Schwartz. I enjoyed Stacey Patton's first book. It is well-written and a real page turner. I learned a great deal not just about the author's childhood but also about the history of slavery and racism in America. A real eye-opener. My parents whipped me as a child and I always thought something was a bit off about the practice, that it had something to do with our past as slaves. Patton's book confirmed my sentiments. Whipping children is a practice that needs to be retired because it is destroying our comm
Patton believes this behavior came from the slave experience: It was what their parents knew and what their parents' parents knew. While G was laid-back, Myrtle was a mean woman who believed she needed to beat and whip Patton to make her submissive, to prepare her for the modern realities of being a little black girl growing up in America. All rights reserved. Five years later, she was placed with a middle-class New Jersey couple eager to adopt. . From Publishers Weekly Patton, a graduate student at Rutgers, was a baby when she entered New Jersey's foster care system. Myrtle and her husband, G, were both African-American, like