A Touch of Innocence: A Memoir of Childhood

by Katherine Dunham

Book Overview

An internationally known dancer, choreographer, and gifted anthropologist, Katherine Dunham was born to a black American tailor and a well-to-do French Canadian woman twenty years his senior. This book is Dunham's story of the chaos and conflict that entered her childhood after her mother's early death.

In stark prose, she tells of growing up in both black and white households and of the divisions of race and class in Chicago that become the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226171124
• ISBN13: 9780226171128
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 4.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.1"