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I've read this memoir and found it fascinating; it was on the required reading list for college freshmen at a couple of univeristies a few years ago. The author is now a successful college professor, but the book is about his growing-up years. His parents were a white woman and a light-skinned black man. During his early childhood, he grew up in Florida as a white child, and he didn't even realize his father was 'passing.' Then his parents divorced or one died, -- I forget which -- but he was sent to Indiana to live with his black relatives. Suddenly, he was treated very differently! He experienced great poverty as a teenager and lots of discrimination at school and in society. It's very much a SEED kind of book and much more recent than Black Like Me.
Sue
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