Skin Deep

Black Women & White Women Write About Race

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$12.80 US
On sale Jul 01, 1996 | 320 Pages | 9780385474108
This anthology of 25 essays, memoirs and works of fiction from well-known writers reflects the contemporary relationships (and non-relationships) between black and white women. Most selections were written specifically for Skin Deep. Contributors include Marita Golden, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Naomi Wolf, and bell hooks.
Introduction
Marita Golden

Introduction
Susan Richards Shreve

High Yellow White Trash
Lisa Page

whitegirls
Marita Golden

The Racism of Well-Meaning White People
Naomi Wolf

Overhand and Underhand
Retha Powers

Negative
Joyce Carol Oates

Recitatif
Toni Morrison

What Tina Has to Do with It
Beverly Lowry

Legacies and Ghosts
Patricia Browning Griffith

Adjustments
Mary Morris

Prudential Life Insurance
Susan Richards Shreve

Across the Glittering Sea
Jewelle Gomez

Loving Across tghe Boundary
Ann Filemyr

The Revenge of Hannah Kemhuff
Alice Walker

Tulsa, 1921
Susan Straight

A Worn Path
Eudora Welty

Conents Under Pressure:
White Woman/Black History
Catherine Clinton

Reaching Across the Feminist Radical Divide
Dorothy Gilliam

Feminism in Black and White
bell hooks

Hello, Stranger
Gayle Pemberton

“Are We So Different?”
A Dialogue Between an African-American and a White Social Worker
Cathleen Gray, Ph.D.
Shirley Bryant, D.S.W.

Contributors



© Luca Pioltelli
Marita Golden is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction. Her books include After, Migrations of the Heart, Saving Our Sons, and Don’t Play in the Sun. She is the founder of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, an organization that supports African American writers. She lives in Mitchellville, Maryland. View titles by Marita Golden
© Sally Stone Halvorson
Susan Shreve is the author of several acclaimed books for young adults and children, including three books about Amanda’s younger brother—Joshua T. Bates. View titles by Susan Shreve

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This anthology of 25 essays, memoirs and works of fiction from well-known writers reflects the contemporary relationships (and non-relationships) between black and white women. Most selections were written specifically for Skin Deep. Contributors include Marita Golden, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Naomi Wolf, and bell hooks.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Marita Golden

Introduction
Susan Richards Shreve

High Yellow White Trash
Lisa Page

whitegirls
Marita Golden

The Racism of Well-Meaning White People
Naomi Wolf

Overhand and Underhand
Retha Powers

Negative
Joyce Carol Oates

Recitatif
Toni Morrison

What Tina Has to Do with It
Beverly Lowry

Legacies and Ghosts
Patricia Browning Griffith

Adjustments
Mary Morris

Prudential Life Insurance
Susan Richards Shreve

Across the Glittering Sea
Jewelle Gomez

Loving Across tghe Boundary
Ann Filemyr

The Revenge of Hannah Kemhuff
Alice Walker

Tulsa, 1921
Susan Straight

A Worn Path
Eudora Welty

Conents Under Pressure:
White Woman/Black History
Catherine Clinton

Reaching Across the Feminist Radical Divide
Dorothy Gilliam

Feminism in Black and White
bell hooks

Hello, Stranger
Gayle Pemberton

“Are We So Different?”
A Dialogue Between an African-American and a White Social Worker
Cathleen Gray, Ph.D.
Shirley Bryant, D.S.W.

Contributors



Author

© Luca Pioltelli
Marita Golden is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction. Her books include After, Migrations of the Heart, Saving Our Sons, and Don’t Play in the Sun. She is the founder of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, an organization that supports African American writers. She lives in Mitchellville, Maryland. View titles by Marita Golden
© Sally Stone Halvorson
Susan Shreve is the author of several acclaimed books for young adults and children, including three books about Amanda’s younger brother—Joshua T. Bates. View titles by Susan Shreve

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