Bernard, Emily,  1967- <br/><br/>
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 
<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1101972416 9781101972410 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Bernard, Emily, 1967- 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>African American women--Biography<br/>African Americans--Social conditions--21st century<br/>African Americans<br/>Women<br/>Race Relations
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Race relations
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E185.97 .B337  / A3 2019