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Black Is the Body

Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time and Mine

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Black Is the Body

By: Emily Bernard
Narrated by: Emily Bernard
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Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably.... Race is the story of my life, and therefore Black is the body of this book.

In 12 intensely personal, interconnected essays, Emily Bernard sets out to tell stories from her life that enable her to talk about truth, race, family and relationships, and much more.

She observes the complexities and paradoxes, the haunting memories and ambushing realities of growing up Black in the South with a family name inherited from a white man, of getting a PhD from Yale, of marrying a white man from the North, of adopting two babies from Ethiopia, of teaching at a white college and living in America's New England today.

Ultimately, she shows us that it is in our shared experience of humanity that we find connection, happiness and hope.

©2021 Emily Bernard (P)2021 Penguin Audio African American Educators Professionals & Academics Women Social justice
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Not what I expected, didn’t meet high reputation. I found it quite boring and dull. Could do with a better narrator, her voice was boring.

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