The Black Body
by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
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30 black, white and biracial contributors celebrate the black body's dramatic role in culture. Award-winning actors, poets, comedians, filmmakers and journalists come together to offer their perspectives on a fascinating and fundamental question - what does it mean to have, or love, a black body? Ranging from the deeply serious to the playful, these essays explore desire, old age, obesity, sex, hunger and parenting with passionate wisdom and a deep sense of history.Tags
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This book is a compilation of a lot of interesting essays about many aspects of the black body. I enjoyed the inclusion of essays written by white people, as I know that many white people fear writing about race issues for fear of coming off as racist, or displaying too much unrealized white privilege.
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Meri Nana-Ama Danquahs previous work includes the groundbreaking memoir, Willow Weep for Me: A Black Womans Journey Through Depression, and two critically acclaimed anthologies, Becoming American and Shaking the Tree. She earned an MFA in creative writing and literature from Bennington College. She divides her time between Los Angeles, California, show more and Accra, Ghana. show less
Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 2009
- Epigraph
- may the tide
that is entering even now
the lip of our understanding
carry you out
beyond the face of fear
- Lucille Clifton - Dedication
- For Mina and Caillou
- First words
- The idea that eventually became this book was rooted in my fascination with the black body, which began when, at the age of six, I emigrated with my family from Ghana to America.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)So that's exactly what I chose for her.
- Blurbers
- Senna, Danzy; Solomon, Andrew; Brinkley, Douglas
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, Anthropology, General Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 305.896 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Ethnic and national groups Other ethnic and national groups Africans and people of African descent; Blacks of African origin
- LCC
- E185.625 .B5545 — History of the United States United States
- BISAC
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- 23
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- 1,150,725
- Reviews
- 1
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- (4.00)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 2
- ASINs
- 1
