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Zusatztext "Captures the sound! the shape and the boundaries of contemporary relationships between Black and White women."-- Essence magazine "Eloquent! challenging and sometimes unsettling."-- Minneapolis Star Tribune Informationen zum Autor Marita Golden is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction. Her books include After, Migrations of the Heart, Saving Our Sons , and Don’t Play in the Sun. She is the founder of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, an organization that supports African American writers. She lives in Mitchellville, Maryland. Susan Shreve is the author of several acclaimed books for young adults and children, including three books about Amanda’s younger brother—Joshua T. Bates. Klappentext Candid, poignant, provocative, and informative, the essays and stories in Skin Deep explore a wide spectrum of racial issues between black and white women, from self-identity and competition to childrearing and friendship. Eudora Welty contributes a bittersweet story of a one-hundred-year-old black woman whose spirit is as determined and strong as anything in nature. Bestselling author Naomi Wolf recalls her first exposure to racism growing up, examining the subtle forms it can take even among well-meaning people; bell hooks writes about the intersection between black women and feminist politics; and Joyce Carol Oates includes a one-act play in which racial stereotypes are reversed. Among the other writers featured in the collection are Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Susan Straight, Mary Morris, and Beverly Lowry. A groundbreaking anthology that reveals surprising insights and hidden truths to a subject too often clouded by misperceptions and easy assumptions, Skin Deep is a major contribution to understanding our culture. Zusammenfassung Candid! poignant! provocative! and informative! the essays and stories in Skin Deep explore a wide spectrum of racial issues between black and white women! from self-identity and competition to childrearing and friendship. Eudora Welty contributes a bittersweet story of a one-hundred-year-old black woman whose spirit is as determined and strong as anything in nature. Bestselling author Naomi Wolf recalls her first exposure to racism growing up! examining the subtle forms it can take even among well-meaning people; bell hooks writes about the intersection between black women and feminist politics; and Joyce Carol Oates includes a one-act play in which racial stereotypes are reversed. Among the other writers featured in the collection are Toni Morrison! Alice Walker! Susan Straight! Mary Morris! and Beverly Lowry. A groundbreaking anthology that reveals surprising insights and hidden truths to a subject too often clouded by misperceptions and easy assumptions! Skin Deep is a major contribution to understanding our culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Marita Golden Introduction Susan Richards Shreve High Yellow White Trash Lisa Page whitegirls Marita Golden The Racism of Well-Meaning White People Naomi Wolf Overhand and Underhand Retha Powers Negative Joyce Carol Oates Recitatif Toni Morrison What Tina Has to Do with It Beverly Lowry Legacies and Ghosts Patricia Browning Griffith Adjustments Mary Morris Prudential Life Insurance Susan Richards Shreve Across the Glittering Sea Jewelle Gomez Loving Across tghe Boundary Ann Filemyr The Revenge of Hannah Kemhuff Alice Walker Tulsa, 1921 Susan Straight A Worn Path Eudora Welty Conents Under Pressure: White Woman/Black History Catherine Clinton Reaching Across the Feminist Radical Divide<...
