A Small Boy and Others

A Small Boy and Others

Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol

  • Autor: Moon, Michael
  • Editor: Duke University Press
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  • ISBN: 9781643362830
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781643362847
  • Lugar de publicación:  South Carolina , Estados Unidos
  • Año de publicación: 2022
  • Año de publicación digital: 2022
  • Mes: Mayo
  • Páginas: 162
  • DDC: 813/.54 B
  • Idioma: Ingles

2023 Southern Book Prize Nonfiction Finalist • A 2022 Katie Couric Media Must-Read New Book • A personal meditation on love in the shadow of white privilege and racism

Child is the story of Judy Goldman's relationship with Mattie Culp, the Black woman who worked for her family as a live-in maid and helped raise her—the unconscionable scaffolding on which the relationship was built and the deep love. It is also the story of Mattie's child, who was left behind to be raised by someone else. Judy, now eighty, cross-examines what it was to be a privileged white child in the Jim Crow South, how a bond can evolve in and out of step with a changing world, and whether we can ever tell the whole truth, even to ourselves. It is an incandescent book of small moments, heart-warming, heartbreaking, and, ultimately, inspiring.

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  • Dedication
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  • Acknowledgments
  • Reading Group Guide

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