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Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Colorado Book Award
As a working mother and poet-lecturer, Camille Dungy’s livelihood depended on travel. She crisscrossed America and beyond with her daughter in tow, history shadowing their steps, always intensely aware of how they were perceived, not just as mother and child but as black women. From the San Francisco of settlers’ dreams to the slave-trading ports of Ghana, from snow-white Maine to a festive yet threatening bonfire in the Virginia pinewoods, Dungy finds fear and trauma but also mercy, kindness, and community. Penetrating and generous, this is an essential guide for a troubled land.
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Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Colorado Book Award
As a working mother and poet-lecturer, Camille Dungy’s livelihood depended on travel. She crisscrossed America and beyond with her daughter in tow, history shadowing their steps, always intensely aware of how they were perceived, not just as mother and child but as black women. From the San Francisco of settlers’ dreams to the slave-trading ports of Ghana, from snow-white Maine to a festive yet threatening bonfire in the Virginia pinewoods, Dungy finds fear and trauma but also mercy, kindness, and community. Penetrating and generous, this is an essential guide for a troubled land.
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Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Colorado Book Award
As a working mother and poet-lecturer, Camille Dungy’s livelihood depended on travel. She crisscrossed America and beyond with her daughter in tow, history shadowing their steps, always intensely aware of how they were perceived, not just as mother and child but as black women. From the San Francisco of settlers’ dreams to the slave-trading ports of Ghana, from snow-white Maine to a festive yet threatening bonfire in the Virginia pinewoods, Dungy finds fear and trauma but also mercy, kindness, and community. Penetrating and generous, this is an essential guide for a troubled land.
Camille T. Dungy is an award-winning poet and editor and professor of creative writing at Colorado State University. She lives with her husband and child in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Table of Contents
By Way of Introduction xi
The Conscientious Outsider 1
Manifest 12
Body of Evidence 35
Inherent Risk, or What I Know About Investment: On Balancing A Career, A Child, and Creative Writing 70
Lap Child 95
A Shade North of Ordinary 110
Writing Home 130
Bounds 135
Tales From a Black Girl on Fire, or Why I Hate To Walk Outside And See Things Burning 171
