Black Body

Name: Black Body
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ISBN: 9781583228890

ISBN-10: 1583228896

ISBN-13: 9781583228890

Edition: 2009

Authors: Meri Nana-Ama Danquah

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Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publication date: 10/6/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.23" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Meri Nana-Ama Danquah is the author of a memoir, Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Body Language



"Reading" the Black Body: or, Considering My Grandmotherï¿½s Hair



Blood and Fire



Playing the Verses Straight



Hair Apparent



Even a Brick House Can Blow Down



Not As Fast As Joe



Hands



My Ace in the Hole



Initiation of a Desire



Our Kind of People



A Cinematic Montage of the Black Male Heart



The Meaning of Ashy



1,000 o'clock: Johnson Time



The Unborrowable Blackness of Being



A Tail Tale



Feeling Tosha Jones



Stones and Sticks



My Daughter, My Self



The New Math



What You See Is What You Get



The Right Side of the Dial



Soul Power



The Soul Section



Break Skin, Break Spirit



The Black Brain



Hungry



Fear and Loathing



In Sickness



Sacred Rhythm



The Joy in the Journey



Notes on Contributors