Guidebook to Relative Strangers
Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History
by Camille T. Dungy
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appears in Nature, Nature, and Travel.
As a working mother whose livelihood as a poetlecturer depended on travel, Camille Dungy crisscrossed America with her infant, then toddler, intensely aware of how they are seen, not just as mother and child, but as black women. With a poet?s eye, she celebrates her daughter?s acquisition of language and discoveries of the natural and human world ...
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