BookEmily Bernard.
Summary: 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.
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.
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