The black notebooks : an interior journey / Toi Derricotte.

The poet Toi Derricotte began this journal over 20 years ago when she, a light-skinned black woman, moved into an all white area near New York City. The author describes encounters with family, neighbours, friends and colleagues where she is forced to question what it means to be a black woman living in a racially divided world. It is also a book about uncovering the denied and shameful aspects of the self, and the author's journey towards self-acceptance.

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Toi Derricotte is the author of four collections of poetry. She teaches at the University of Pittsburgh. The Black Notebooks received the Anisfield-Wolfe Award and the 1998 Caucus of the American Library Association Award and was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

Introduction Writing The Black Notebooks	p. 11
Early Memory The California Zephyr	p. 23
The Club	p. 29
Blacks in the U.	p. 73
Among School Children	p. 97
Race in the Creative Writing Classroom	p. 117
Diaries at an Artists Colony	p. 137
Face to Face	p. 153
Acknowledgments	p. 203

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