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A New Statesman essential non-fiction read of 2021"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 twelve intensely personal, interconnected essays, Emily Bernard sets out to tell stories fro...

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An extraordinary, exquisitely written memoir through essays that looks at race in a fearless, penetrating, honest 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."In these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, 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 ...

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In this unusually honest book of essays and other writings, Emily Bernard examines the complexities of interracial friendships: Latino and white, black and Asian, black and Jewish. In essays from such celebrated writers as Pam Houston, Darryl Pickney, Luis Rodriguez, and Susan Straight, among many others, you'll meet a young Italian American college student who rooms with a sophisticated young black man who can trace his college-educated elder...