Black is the body : stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine /
Bernard, Emily, 1967-
Black is the body : stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine / Emily Bernard - First Vintage Books edition - xiii, 217 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
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
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
1101972416 9781101972410
Bernard, Emily, 1967-
African American women--Biography
African Americans--Social conditions--21st century
African Americans
Women
Race Relations
United States--Race relations
E185.97 .B337 / A3 2019
Black is the body : stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine / Emily Bernard - First Vintage Books edition - xiii, 217 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
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
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
1101972416 9781101972410
Bernard, Emily, 1967-
African American women--Biography
African Americans--Social conditions--21st century
African Americans
Women
Race Relations
United States--Race relations
E185.97 .B337 / A3 2019