The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 205 p. These journals were kept by African-American poet Toi Derricotte, who can "pass" for white, when she lived in an affluent white suburb of New York with her much darker-skinned husband. Derricotte became deeply depressed by this experience, and wrote about it in order to survive it. Nominated for the 1998 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. Condition: Very good in good dust jacket. Signed by author. DJ torn at bottom of front flap.
Keywords: African-Americans, Racism, Light-skinned, All-white Neighborhood, New York City, Discrimination, Artist Colony, Creative Writing, XZeyphr, Self-acceptance
ISBN: 9780393045444
[Book #60702]
Price: $45.00