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Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine Cover:Paperback empowering point of view: sheBlackness 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 these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up black in the south with a family name inherited from a