Black is the Body

Black is the BodyIn these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Emily 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

but its differing perspectives also reveal a set of overlapping concerns

and exploring

encompassing the small personal collection

Boorstin’s The Image

social change

The Great Wave or Kanagawa oki nami ura print by artist Katsushika Hokusai is from an original color woodcut

and objects from the Library of Congress collections illuminate the story of these landmark trees and how they came to the nation's capital as a symbol of friendship with Japan

battled the British

Seamus Heaney

Youth Sizes : S

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