Black is the body : stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
Physical Description
xiii, 217 pages ; 20 cm
Summary
An extraordinary, exquisitely written memoir (of sorts) that looks at race--in a fearless, penetrating, honest, true way--in twelve telltale, connected, deeply personal essays that explore, up-close, the complexities and paradoxes, the haunting memories and ambushing realities of growing up black in the South with a family name inherited from a white man, of getting a PhD from Yale, of marrying a white man from the North, of adopting two babies from Ethiopia, of teaching at a white college and living in America's New England today.
Notes
"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.
Contents
- Beginnings
- Scar tissue
- Teaching the N-word
- Interstates
- Mother on Earth
- Black is the body
- Skin
- White friend
- Her glory
- Motherland
- Going home
- People like me
- Epilogue: My turn.