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 bonfir...