num_pages: 256
description: Born in London to a Nigerian princess Precious Williams saw her life change radically in its first months. Her mother deciding she couldn't raise a child placed an ad for foster care in Nursery World. A response soon came from a woman in rural Sussex and Precious three months old was handed off in a basket.Nan Precious's new foster mother was sixty years old and white and prided herself on being color blind. But she might also have been shortsighted about the difficulties her black daughter would encounter. At her all-white school Precious was taunted and ostracized and Nan struggled to understand her daughter's troubles. Precious's birth mother would visit occasionally providing glimpses of a different world but eventually turned critical of a daughter who had become too white.Retreating into her imagination Precious forged her own identity. She emerged from the disillusionment and self-destructiveness of her teen years with a fierce resolve not to let circumstance class or color determine her future. Precious Williams tells her extraordinary story in Color Blind brightly bravely grappling with issues of identity motherhood and race.
language: English
title: Color Blind: A Memoir
publisher: Bloomsbury USA