| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 217 pages ; 20 cm |
| Summary |
"A collection of essays on race"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
"This is a Borzoi book." |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Bernard, Emily, 1967-
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African American women -- Biography.
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African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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United States -- Race relations.
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African American women. (OCoLC)fst00799438
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African Americans -- Social conditions.
(OCoLC)fst00799698
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Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American.
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Autobiographies.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Bernard, Emily, 1967- Black is the body. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019 9780451493033 (DLC) 2018034693 |
| ISBN |
9780451493026 (hardcover) |
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0451493028 (hardcover) |
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