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Nikki Giovanni’s Appalachian Ties

Nikki Giovanni’s Appalachian Ties Nikki giovaNNi's appalachiaN ties Virginia C. Fowler Certain aspects of Nikki Giovanni's biography are not unique to her but common to several generations of African-Americans. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, she moved with her family to Cincinnati, Ohio ("Gateway to the South"). In 1943, when she was only two months old, she and her family were a part of what we now call the Great Migration of blacks from the rural South to the urban North. Like many others, Giovanni's parents migrated north to pursue better job opportunities and to escape the racial conditions of the South. In Knoxville, Giovanni's father could find only low-paying, menial jobs, despite the fact that he had a college education. In Knoxville, his children's lives would be constricted by segregation's many rules and regulations. In Cincinnati, where he had moved with his mother when he was himself only a child (a part of an earlier wave of black migration from the South), Gus Giovanni was offered a job at a home for black boys, as well as opportunities for future, better-paying professional employment. Like many other children whose parents migrated to the North but left family in the South, Giovanni and her sister http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Nikki Giovanni’s Appalachian Ties

Fowler, Virginia C.
Appalachian Review , Volume 36 (3) – Sep 28, 2008
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Nikki giovaNNi's appalachiaN ties Virginia C. Fowler Certain aspects of Nikki Giovanni's biography are not unique to her but common to several generations of African-Americans. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, she moved with her family to Cincinnati, Ohio ("Gateway to the South"). In 1943, when she was only two months old, she and her family were a part of what we now call the Great Migration of blacks from the rural South to the urban North. Like many others, Giovanni's parents migrated north to pursue better job opportunities and to escape the racial conditions of the South. In Knoxville, Giovanni's father could find only low-paying, menial jobs, despite the fact that he had a college education. In Knoxville, his children's lives would be constricted by segregation's many rules and regulations. In Cincinnati, where he had moved with his mother when he was himself only a child (a part of an earlier wave of black migration from the South), Gus Giovanni was offered a job at a home for black boys, as well as opportunities for future, better-paying professional employment. Like many other children whose parents migrated to the North but left family in the South, Giovanni and her sister

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Published: Sep 28, 2008

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