Title: Where to, black man?
First published: 1967
Description: From the Dust Jacket: "Well, it's about time I face facts: I am not one of them, and never can be. I think I've always known that, and perhaps what I'm really struggling for is their recognition, not of a 'lost brother, ' but of one who understands and wants to be understood in turn. The boy I hit-will the someday realize that I was hitting myself as well? Seeing in that dark brown face with the full lips all the self-hate and feelings of inferiority that have plagued me down through the years?" This secretly written diary is the record of an American Negro's passionate search for his own identity in Africa-a modern odyssey. From Alabama, Ed Smith joined the Peace Corps and went to Ghana thinking he was black; he came home two years later knowing he was an American. Ed Smith discovered his other world, but realized finally that his Negro ancestry was not a passport to identity, or even to hope.
Subjects: Peace Corps (U.S.)
Places: Ghana
LC classification: HC60.5 .S6