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Black Is the Body: Stories from my Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
By Bernard, Emily
- ISBN
- 9780451493026 9780451493033
- Publisher
- Knopf.
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Starred Review on December 1, 2018 | Arts & Humanities
"Blackness is an art, not a science," writes Bernard (English, critical race & ethnic studies, Univ. of Vermont; editor, Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten). Blackness is a situation, a story, a condition full of contradictions, and the thread that runs through the essays in this collection. The author is interested in the border where blackness meets whiteness and the line between self and...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
