TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bernard,Emily
TI  - Black is the body: stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine 
SN  - 1101972416
AV  - E185.97 .B337 A3 2019
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
KW  - Bernard, Emily,
KW  - African American women
KW  - Biography
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Women
KW  - Race Relations
KW  - United States
KW  - Race relations
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -