Skin Deep: Black Women & White Women Write About Race - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0385474091 ISBN 13: 9780385474092

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 1995

Riassunto

Twenty selections--essays, stories, a poem, and a play--by Toni Morrison, Naomi Wolf, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, and lesser known writers explore contemporary relationships between black and white women, questions of identity, and competition for equality. 20,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo.

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"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
From the Trade Paperback edition.

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nant, 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 maj

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• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0385474091
• ISBN 13: 9780385474092
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 309
• Redattore: Golden Marita, Shreve Susan Richards