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The Black Notebooks
An Interior Journey
by Toi Derricotte
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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.
Available editions of The Black Notebooks
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9780393319019,
Paperback,
W W Norton & Co Inc,
1999
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9780393045444,
Hardcover,
W W Norton & Co Inc,
1997
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Publisher Notes
A light-skinned black woman, Toi Derricotte moved to an all-white neighborhood near New York City 20 years ago and began making journal entries of encounters with neighbors, family, and colleagues. The result is a brilliant and painful document about the complexity of race in America.
Media Reviews
"A very strong first prose offering on an always provocative subject."
First Line
I'm sure most people don't go around all the time thinking about what race they are.
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