These Hands I Know African-American Writers on Family

Name: These Hands I Know African-American Writers on Family
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ISBN: 9781889330723

ISBN-10: 1889330728

ISBN-13: 9781889330723

Edition: 2002

Authors: Afaa M. Weaver

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These Hands I Know offers readers the first-ever intimate view of the inner workings of black family life from the point of view of prose and poetry writers. This collection of seventeen essays includes portraits of fathers, mothers, nieces, brothers, grandparents, husbands, wives, and daughters-in short the full spectrum of absolute humanity in contemporary black families. Here, in letter form, a man speaks to his aunt, the family matriarch. A daughter rejects her father's ideas of African-American identity. A young woman holds her niece in her hands for the very first time. And a son faces his father as an old man and finally comes to terms with his failings. These Hands I Know seeks to…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Sarabande Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Introduction



Up the Hill



Roy Lee DeBerry



A Son in Shadow



The Tail of Color



Keziah



My Country 'Tis of Thee



Letter from Monticello



A Curious Absence



My Cleaning Lady



From I'm Katherine: A Memoir



Peace Offerings



The Future in My Arms



Making Noise



Brothers and Sisters



A Racial Education, Part Two



Fathering Words



Spirit Family of the Streets



The Editor


Contributors


Acknowledgments