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The Black Notebooks
The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey | Toi Derricotte
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Spanning twenty years, from the time the author, a light-skinned black woman, moved into an all-white neighborhood, a journal ponders the meaning of being black in a racially divided country, and the price of denying it.
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Derricotte's language is so incisive and precise and still richly poetic, that I have to keep stopping myself from post-quoting a whole page or doing too much decontextualized quoting (since the latter strikes me as very autopsistic in an othering way). Anyway, read this book, everyone.

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I picked up this book in high school and it changed my world view. The book presents a peeled back look at the ways in which race seeps into the very bed rock of our lives.