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

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

An extraordinary, exquisitely written memoir through essays that looks at race in a fearless, penetrating, honest way.

"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."

In these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up black in the south with a family name inherited from a white man, surviving a random stabbing at a New Haven coffee shop while taking graduate studies at Yale, marrying a white man from the north and bring him home to her family, adopting two babies from Ethiopia, and living and teaching in a primarily white New England college town. Each of these essays goes beyond a narrative of black innocence and white guilt and sets out to discover a new way of telling the truth as the author has lived it. "Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably . . . Race is the story of my life, and therefore black is the body of this book."
Country USA
Brand Vintage
Manufacturer Vintage
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781101972410
Color Silver
ReleaseDate 2019-12-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781101972410

Country	USA
Brand	Vintage
Manufacturer	Vintage
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781101972410
Color	Silver
ReleaseDate	2019-12-03
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781101972410

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

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