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Guidebook to relative strangers : journeys into race, motherhood, and history

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  • Contributor: HighBridge Audio (Firm); Johnson, Allyson
    Edition: Unabridged
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    Created
    2017
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    Copyrighted
    2017
    Summary:

    As a working mother whose livelihood as a poet-lecturer depended on travel, Camille T. Dungy crisscrossed America with her infant, then a toddler. As they travel, Dungy is intensely aware of how they are seen, not just as mother and child but as black females. With a poet's eye, she celebrates the particular in the universal, such as a child's acquisition of language and what to pack in a diaper bag. At the same time, her horizons are wide, as history shadows her steps everywhere she goes: from the San Francisco of settlers' and investors' dreams to the slave-trading ports of Ghana; from snow-white Maine to a festive, yet threatening, bonfire in the Virginia pinewoods. With exceptional candor, Dungy explores our inner and outer worlds-the multitudinous experiences of mothering, illness, and the ever-present embodiment of race-finding fear and trauma but also mercy, kindness, and community. Penetrating and generous, far-seeing and intimate, her prose is an essential guide for a troubled land.

    Original Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn, [Prince Frederick, Md.], Highbridge Audio, [Distributed by] RBdigital
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781681686646