When Race Becomes Real
Subtitle: Black and White Writers Confront their Personal Histories
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Published: July 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9781556524486
Subjects: Biography: general; Literary studies: general; Sociology, Social Studies; Social Science; Discrimination & Racism; American - General; United States; Racism; Sociology; Race relations; Minority Studies - Race Relations; African Americans; African American authors; Anecdotes; Biography; Race identity
First sentence: IF THERE ISN'T a reason, there is at least a little story about why my brother and I, both white kids, attended an almost all-black school in Michigan when I was in the first grade and he in the sixth.