Caucasia Political Process From Mariame Kaba

From Mariame Kaba

protective of each other

and imagination

' But now that we have this book

A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic

Caucasia Political Process From Mariame KabaBirdie and Cole are the daughters of a black father and a white mother, intellectuals and activists in the civil rights movement in Boston in the 1970s. The sisters are so close that they have created a private language, yet to the outside world they can't be sisters: while Cole looks like her father's daughter, Birdie appears to be white. For Birdie, Cole is the mirror in which she can see her own blackness. Then their parents marriage falls apart.