Filling in the Chasm Between Black and WhitePosted in Articles, Autobiography, Media Archive, Women on 2010-09-28 03:27Z by Steven |
Filling in the Chasm Between Black and White
The Siskiyou
Southern Oregon University
2006-02-27
Last week I had the pleasure of attending the lecture by James McBride, having read his memoir a few years ago when I was at my most-heightened search for identity. Without retaining much of the details of his life story, what has remained with me is the knowledge that someone else had experiences similar to my own. To know that he too struggled with feelings of shame over his white mother and questions over whether he, as a black child, had been adopted, brought down the wall of alienation I felt was between me and the rest of the world…
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