Joey S. (Joey) reviewed on 3/2/2007 + 404 more book reviews

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It's written in a simple open style except when he goes off on his black-politics tangents. But even that helped illuminate his inner workings...
It could be argued that there are two books here under one cover: one is a fascinating story on... a black man finding his white kin; and the other is on impersonal racial politics. I skipped thru the politics. ... the story always got back to the struggle within the black author himself , of his anger, and of his conflicting black and (largely unknown) white heritage.
When the author finally made first contact with his contemporary (white) distant cousins, who were indeed vaguely aware of a black half-aunt from a few generations back... it was very moving... What an adventure in closing the circle that spanned over a century. amazon

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