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Skin Deep: Black Women and White Women Write About Race
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"Race is the tar baby in our midst; touch it and you get stuck, hold it and you get dirty, so they say. But anyone who reads the pieces in this book will discover only premeditated ruminations designed to cleanse, complete, and free."
-from the introduction by Marita Golden
As racial issues continue to flare across the national debate, this extraordinary anthology focuses on race from the point of view of women. Skin Deep captures the sound, the shape, and the boundaries of the contemporary relationships between Black and White women. The roster of authors who have contributed to this volume is truly exceptional, including such noted names as Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Naomi Wolf, Joyce Carol Oates, Susan Straight, bell hooks, Mary Morris, Beverly Lowry, and Eudora Welty.
Skin Deep covers the wide spectrum of the female experience as it relates to race, exploring matters of identity, child rearing, friendship, and the unity and competition between Black and White women's struggles for equality. Marita Golden and Susan Richards Shreve, whose friendship in many ways exemplifies women's cross-racial relationships, provide revealing introductions and contribution of their own.
Candid, poignant, and authentic, the twenty selections-which include personal reminiscences, thoughtful discussions, short fiction, fables, a poem, and a one-act play-bring unique insights and truths to an issue often clouded by easy assumptions and misperceptions. Skin Deep is a major contribution to women's and African-American studies and a truly eye-opening book.
