In Between: Memoir of an Integration Baby
This exquisitely written and psychologically penetrating book will teach you, bother you and bring you to tears. Mark Morrison-Reed has given us the gift of his heart in order to illumine the complexities of race that haunt us all and, in the process, illuminated how fear and brokenness may be redeemed by the healing, if painful, power of authenticity. --William F. Schulz, President of the Unitarian Universalist Association, 1985-93W. E. B. DuBois wrote of the impossibility of disentangling the reality of African-Americans being at once Africa's infants and America's children. This is what Mark Morrison-Reed's new book In Between is about. It is a difficult memoir, piercing in its honest suffering and barely suppressed rage, but tempered by Morrison-Reed's seemingly endless reservoir of warmth, tenderness and good humor. All of us have family stories to tell but Mark's family stories, in their complexity, history, accomplishment and influence are more fascinating than most. --Denny Davidoff, Moderator of the UUA, 1993-2001“Morrison-Reed’s account is nothing less than a spiritual clearing in the forest of race and ethnicity.  Every reader will rejoice that he has entrusted it to these pages.” --Lee Barker, President, Meadville Lombard Theological School’