Black is the body : stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine / Emily Bernard.

"A collection of essays on race"-- "An extraordinary exquisitely written memoir (of sorts) that looks at race in a fearless, penetrating, honest, true way. ... 'I am black-and brown, too,' writes Emily Bernard. 'Brown is the body I was born into. Black is the body of the stories I tell.' These twelv...

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