The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin by Hafizah Augustus Geter Photography Bernardine Evaristo’s 2019 Booker Prize

Bernardine Evaristo’s 2019 Booker Prize win was a historic and revolutionary occasion

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Life magazine sent Gordon Parks to Alabama to document the daily realities of African Americans living under Jim Crow laws in the rural South

The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin by Hafizah Augustus Geter Photography Bernardine Evaristo’s 2019 Booker PrizeAn acclaimed poet reclaims her origin story as the queer daughter of a Muslim Nigerian immigrant and a Black American visual artist in this groundbreaking memoir, combining lyrical prose, biting criticism, and haunting visuals.Hafizah Augustus Geter is a genuine artist, not bound by genre or form. Her only loyalty is the harrowing beauty of the truth.Tayari Jones, author of An American MarriageI say, the Black Period, and mean home in all its