Abstract
Throughout this autoethnography, the author weaves personal memories of her early life in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1960s and 70s into a larger set of social and historical events of that turbulent era. Using the metaphor of "crossing over," she traces her growing awareness of racial inequality and white privilege during a period in which she must also come to terms with a series of deaths by disease, fire, and assassination. While literally crossing bridges and terrain, she figuratively crosses class and color lines that have long separated generations of her once-wealthy white family from the people who served them.
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Communication
Volume
40
Issue
1
First Page
97
Last Page
113
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Filmer, Alice A.
(2008)
"Memories of Flesh and Fire: Crossing Over Color Lines,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 40:
No.
1, Article 9.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol40/iss1/9
Copyright
©2008 Iowa Communication Association
