Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
ISBN-13:
9781101972410
ISBN-10:
1101972416
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Emily Bernard
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
Vintage
Format:
Paperback
240 pages
Category:
Black & African American
,
Cultural & Regional
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Book details
ISBN-13:
9781101972410
ISBN-10:
1101972416
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Emily Bernard
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
Vintage
Format:
Paperback
240 pages
Category:
Black & African American
,
Cultural & Regional
Summary
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine (ISBN-13: 9781101972410 and ISBN-10: 1101972416), written by authors
Emily Bernard, was published by Vintage in 2019.
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Description
WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD PRIZE FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PROSE
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND KIRKUS REVIEWS
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, marrying a white man from the North and bringing him home to her family, adopting two children from Ethiopia, and living and teaching in a primarily white New England college town. Each of these essays sets out to discover a new way of talking about race and of telling the truth as the author has lived it. “Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my life, and therefore black is the body of this book.”
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND KIRKUS REVIEWS
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, marrying a white man from the North and bringing him home to her family, adopting two children from Ethiopia, and living and teaching in a primarily white New England college town. Each of these essays sets out to discover a new way of talking about race and of telling the truth as the author has lived it. “Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my life, and therefore black is the body of this book.”
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