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Emily Bernard, an associate professor at the University of Vermont, is the editor of Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, and Some of My Best Friends: Writings on Interracial Friendship.
[Excerpted from The Best of Creative Nonfiction Vol. 2] There are two wooden figures on my husband’s desk. Figurines. They are meant to resemble humans, black humans. African-Americans. Every time I enter my husband’s office at home, which is several times a day, I look for these figurines. Sometimes they are hiding under mail and
