stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Bernard, Emily
- Publish Year
- 2019
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 BER 2019
- Thesaurus
- Verenigde Staten, 21e eeuw, 2000-2009, 2010-2019, bundel, essay, autobiografie
- Description
- In these twelve personal connected essays, Emily Bernard (1967) 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.
- Several of these essays appeared in slightly different versions in various journals in the period 2005-2018.