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I Didn't Know I Wasn't Black |
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| By: Gary Earl MacLean
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| When four-year-old Gary's white parents divorce in 1954 his family falls apart. When his Mother remarries, a black man, in 1950's America his world falls apart. He was a five-year old white boy unwillingly thrust into a nine-year journey that simultaneously bares the soul of white prejudice and exposes the cautious anger of the black man living in 1955 America. When Gary MacLean was four years old his white Mother and Father divorced. His Mother immediately married her black lover. She took two of his sisters and him with her; she left behind his five bewildered siblings. |
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Price: $2.50 Number of words: 160723
Comments: 5 |
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| Keywords:
black
divorce
southern
white
discriminate
prejudice
bias
anger
mixed
nigger
hate
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Biography and Memoirs |
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| Classification: General Language: English |
| Edition: first |
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Comments for: First chapter Posted By: hfmclean Posted Date: 2008-05-26 |
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| This book brings out every emotion a person can feel. One minute you are laughing and the next sobbing. It is the kind of book that you have to know what happens next. Many times, through-out the book, you just have to set it down so you can gather your thoughts and re-group your emotions. Every chapter is a short story on it's own. From going to bed hungery to snow coming though the cracks of the roof where he slept. His Mother did what she could to put food on the table, even if it was only a bowl of boiled corn. |
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Comments for: First chapter Posted By: lmac52 Posted Date: 2008-05-13 |
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| "Wow!" To experience what Gary did, was sad but, on the other hand made him strong not weak. I can't wait to read the entire book. Very well written. I wish that it was a movie. Lots of TRUE drama. |
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Comments for: First chapter Posted By: Kimberly Posted Date: 2008-05-12 |
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| Why the introduction? Why not disperse the facts and how it all felt throughout the story, let them come out in the narrative. Show me, don't tell me. |
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Comments for: First chapter Posted By: Greebosears Posted Date: 2008-05-12 |
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| Very well written by a man with a unique perspective and insight to a different world of a different time. It seems to me that Gary had experienced almost every human emotion at the age of four and unlike today with counselors for everything he had to figure it all out on his own – alone. This first chapter was amazing; I'm hooked, if the rest of this book is anything like the first chapter I can't wait to read the rest of the book. Excellent and fascinating to say the least. |
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Comments for: First chapter Posted By: Hurlmaster Posted Date: 2008-05-12 |
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