One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life—A Story of Race and Family SecretsPosted in Biography, Books, Media Archive, Monographs, Passing, United States on 2013-03-23 02:46Z by Steven |
One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life—A Story of Race and Family Secrets
Little, Brown and Company
2007
544 pages
5-1/2″ x 8-1/4″
ISBN: 9780316008068
Ever since renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard’s own parents, New Orleans Creoles, had moved to Brooklyn and began to “pass” in order to get work, he had learned to conceal his racial identity. As he grew older and entered the ranks of the New York literary elite, he maintained the façade. Now his daughter Bliss tries to make sense of his choices and the impact of this revelation on her own life. She searches out the family she never knew in New York and New Orleans, and considers the profound consequences of racial identity.
Read an excerpt here.