Black is the body : stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine / Emily Bernard.
| Author/creator |
Bernard, Emily, 1967- author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Edition | First Vintage Books edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019] |
| Copyright Notice | ©2019 |
| Description | xiii, 217 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm |
| Subject(s) |
Click here for more information about this title
| Uniform title | Essays. Selections |
| 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. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Genre/form | Autobiographies. |
| Genre/form | Autobiographies. |
| ISBN | 1101972416 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9781101972410 (paperback) |
Available Items
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | E185.97 .B337 A3 2019 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |