Expatriates in Léo -- At the Roadblock -- Les Coiffures -- The Proposal -- The Robbery -- Familial Connections -- A Southerner at the Door -- The Return Home -- History and Négritude in the Flesh -- Canadian Fixation -- A Bump in the Road -- Crossing the Ocean à Paris -- The Street Sweepers -- I Am Not My Hair -- A Future Decision -- In Search of Sister-Brotherhood -- Gender Politics -- Residues of Apartheid -- Going to Fort Hare -- Redemption and the TRC -- Ubuntu in Alice -- Teraanga in Senegal -- Childhood Sweethearts and Colorism -- A Tribute to Ma Berrian -- From Whence I Came
Summary:
"A hybrid of memoir and history, Race, Identity, and Privilege from the US to the Congo explores Brenda F. Berrian's experiences of being both an insider and outsider throughout her global travels and of developing her racial, feminist, and political consciousness as a Black woman along the way"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Critical Africana studies : African, African American, and Caribbean interdisciplinary and intersectional studies
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.