Review:
"In this powerful collection of life-writing, we see our sister coming home to herself and to us. In doing so, she places the `color complex' squarely on the table. We owe it to her to join the dialogue."-Patricia Bell-Scott, editor of Life Notes: Personal Writing by Contemporary Black Women "These stunningly powerful essays call upon experiences utterly personal yet distinctly universal; they examine flawed constructs that have evolved to set people apart from one another-fundamental notions about how a person is supposed to look or act based upon arbitrary groupings. With a goal no less compelling than building what she terms `a new kinds of community,' Scales-Trent proves to be a teacher of remarkable humanity and great clarity of thought."-Booklist "[Judy Scales-Trent] has only two choices. She can accept these crazy definitions and be degraded and marginalized into almost-nothingness, or she can take a look at the narrow margin where she lives and turn it into another set of lines, a river and two shores, or a crossroads where many highways intersect. Scales-Trent hangs out in the margin of things. But she's taken these margins, these borderlines, and turned them into deep, rich countries of her own."-Carolyn See, Washington Post
Synopsis:
This text explores the question of what is meant by "race", once it is clear that race is not a tangible reality as reflected through colour. It addresses how race and colour interact in relationships between men and women, within families and in the larger community.
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