Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Ethical issues & debates > Pornography & obscenity
|
Buy Now
The Book Keeper - A Memoir of Race, Love, and Legacy (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R605
Discovery Miles 6 050
You Save: R67
(10%)
|
|
The Book Keeper - A Memoir of Race, Love, and Legacy (Hardcover)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
"A fiercely felt memoir about family shame and the transformative
power of love even as it's also an ongoing meditation on privilege
and race in twenty-first-century America. This is a debut striking
in its empathetic imagination, observational acuity, and emotional
intelligence." -- Jim Shepard, author of Like You'd Understand,
Anyway. In a memoir that's equal parts love story, investigation,
and racial reckoning, Munemo unravels and interrogates her
whiteness, a shocking secret, and her family's history. When
interracial romance novels written by her long-dead father landed
on Julia McKenzie Munemo's kitchen table, she--a white woman--had
been married to a black man for six years and their first son was a
toddler. Out of shame about her father's secret career as a writer
of "slavery porn," she hid the books from herself, and from her
growing mixed-race family, for more than a decade. But then, with
police shootings of African American men more and more in the
public eye, she realized that understanding her own legacy was the
only way to begin to understand her country.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.