Title:
In full color : finding my place in a black and white world
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Publication Date:
2017
Publication Information:
Dallas, TX : BenBella Books, Inc., [2017]
Physical Description:
xvi, 282 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781944648169
Abstract:
Seen by the media in 2015 as a white woman who had knowingly been passing as black, the author shares her nuanced and complex story, from being a child of white evangelical parents to an NAACP chapter president and respected educator and activist who identified as black, forcing readers to reconsider race and identity.
Contents:
Delivered by Jesus -- Escaping to Africa (in my head) -- Oatmeal -- Drowned by religion -- Hustling to make a dollar -- Chicken head baseball & huckleberry stains -- Thirteen I -- Adopting Ezra -- Separate but equal -- Hair I -- Million Man March -- Belhaven College -- Hair II -- Adopting a new Dad I -- Kevin & Howard -- Emancipation -- San Francisco -- Thirteen II -- Adopting a new Dad II -- Malicious harassment -- Raising black boys in America -- The third strike -- Black lives matter -- Lorenzo Hayes -- Ambushed by reporter -- Unemployed -- New York -- Backlash -- Survival mode -- Rebirth.
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Language:
English
