Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys Into Race, Motherhood, and History

by Camille T. Dungy

Book Overview

As a working mother whose livelihood as a poet-lecturer depended on travel, Camille Dungy crisscrossed America with her infant, then toddler, intensely aware of how they are seen, not just as mother and child, but as black women. With a poet's eye, she celebrates her daughter's acquisition of language and discoveries of the natural and human world around her. At the same time history shadows her steps everywhere she goes: from the San Francisco...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393253759
• ISBN13: 9780393253757
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.5"