{"product_id":"up-home-one-girls-journey-ruth-j-simmons-hardcover","title":"Up Home: One Girl's Journey -- Ruth J. Simmons, Hardcover","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn \u003cb\u003e\"extraordinary\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditors' Choice)\u003c\/b\u003e memoir from the daughter of sharecroppers in East Texas who became the first Black president of an Ivy League university--an uplifting story of girlhood and the power of family, community, and the classroom to transform one young person's life\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A riveting work of literature, destined to take its place in the canon of great African American autobiographies.\"--Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eI was born at a crossroads: a crossroads in history, a crossroads in culture, and a geographical crossroad in North Houston County in East Texas.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in 1945, Ruth J. Simmons grew up the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Her first home had no running water, no electricity, no books to read. Yet despite this--or, in her words, because of it--Simmons would become one of America's preeminent educators. The former president of Smith College, Brown University, and Prairie View A\u0026amp;M, Texas's oldest HBCU, Simmons has inspired generations of students as she herself made history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eUp Home, \u003c\/i\u003e Simmons takes us back to Grapeland to show how the people who love us when we are young shape who we become. We meet her caring, tireless mother who managed to feed her large family with an often empty pantry; her father, who refused to let racial and economic injustice crush his youngest daughter's dreams; the doting brothers and sisters; and the attentive teachers who welcomed Ruth into the classroom, guiding her to a future she could hardly imagine as a child. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the farmland of East Texas to Houston's Fifth Ward to New Orleans at the dawn of the civil rights movement, Simmons depicts an era long gone but whose legacies of inequality we still live with today. Written in clear and timeless prose, \u003ci\u003eUp Home\u003c\/i\u003e is both an origin story set in the segregated South and the uplifting chronicle of a girl whose intellect, grace, and curiosity guide her as she creates a place for herself in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ruth J. Simmons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/05\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.35h x 5.75w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593446003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2023 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/10\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2023 pg. 9\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/08\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRuth J. Simmons \u003c\/b\u003eis the president of Prairie View A\u0026amp;M University, Texas's oldest HBCU, as well as the former president of Brown University and Smith College and former vice provost of Princeton. She earned her bachelor's degree from Dillard University and her master's and doctorate from Harvard in Romance languages and literatures. The president of France named her chevalier of the French Legion of Honor and President Biden named her to the White House HBCU Advisory Board.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ruth J. Simmons","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45011170459876,"sku":"9780593446003","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780593446003.jpg?v=1719463033","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/up-home-one-girls-journey-ruth-j-simmons-hardcover","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}