Emily Bernard is the author of Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine, winner of the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, and Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White. She is a contributing editor of the Scholar.
Emily Bernard
My Name Is Emily
What we call ourselves—and what others call us—can be both a burden and a gift
by Emily Bernard | Monday, March 04, 2024
It All Begins in Love
An essayist sees glimpses of her parents and the many struggles they endured in a new exhibition of southern photography
by Emily Bernard | Friday, January 05, 2024
Life in Black and White
by Emily Bernard | Monday, August 02, 2021
Interstates
How My Italian-American husband ate his way into the good graces of my African-American family
by Emily Bernard | Monday, March 06, 2017
The Value of Clarity
by Emily Bernard | Monday, August 15, 2016
Useful
by Emily Bernard | Monday, March 10, 2014
Scar Tissue
When I was stabbed 17 years ago in a New Haven coffee shop, the wounds did not only come from the knife
by Emily Bernard | Thursday, August 25, 2011
Deep Trouble
How a natural disaster barreled into a historical one
by Emily Bernard | Friday, June 03, 2011
Teaching the N-Word
A black professor, an all-white class, and the thing nobody will say