Black is the body: stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine
✍ Scribed by Emily Bernard
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; Alfred A. Knopf
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 154 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- United States,United States.
- ISBN
- 0451493036
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
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. From the acclaimed editor of Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten ("Superb," Arnold Rampersad; "A major contribution," Henry Louis Gates; "Magnificent," Washington Post).
"I am black--and brown, too," writes Emily Bernard. "Brown is the body I was born into. Black is the body of the stories I tell."
And the storytelling, and the mystery of Bernard's storytelling, of getting...
✦ Subjects
United States