Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time and Mine

✍ Scribed by Bernard, Emily

• Book ID: 110352489
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 329 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780451493026

✦ 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...