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Black is the body : stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine

Call Number

  • 305.48896 B5186 (CEN)

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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.

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