The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin by Hafizah Augustus Geter Get Book
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The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin by Hafizah Augustus Geter
A stunningly original and lyrical memoir from an acclaimed poet that crosses continents, grapples with white supremacy, and explores how the origin stories we inherit can be remade, featuring original art from the author's father, renowned artist Tyrone Geter."I say 'the Black Period, ' and mean 'home' in all its shapeshifting ways." Hafizah Augustus Geter disrupts the myths of both America's origins and its present day through her experiences as the queer Nigerian-born daughter of a Muslim Nigerian woman and a Black American man from a Southern Baptist family in Jim Crow Alabama. A unique combination of gripping memoir and Afrofuturist thought, The Black Period follows Hafizah on a journey that tells her at every turn she's not worthy. In the face of these indignities, she manages to sidestep shame, confront disability, embrace forgiveness, and emerge from the erasures America imposes to exist proudly and unabashedly as herself. Penetrative and heartening, The Black Period captures