One drop : my father's hidden life : a story of race and family secrets
Broyard, Bliss
One drop : my father's hidden life : a story of race and family secrets / Bliss Broyard - 1st ed. - New York : Little, Brown and Co. , 2007 - 514 p. : illus. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Love at last sight -- Infinity of traces -- Avenues of flight.
Two months before he died of cancer, renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard called his grown son and daughter to his side, to reveal a secret he had kept all their lives and most of his own: he was black. His daughter Bliss learned that her WASPy, privileged Connecticut childhood had come at a price. Ever since his own parents, New Orleans Creoles, had moved to Brooklyn and began to "pass" in order to get work, Anatole had learned to conceal his racial identity. As he grew older and entered the ranks of the New York literary élite, he maintained the façade. Now Bliss tries to make sense of his choices and the impact of this revelation on her own life. She searches out the family she never knew in New York and New Orleans, and considers the profound consequences of racial identity.
English
9780316163507
Broyard, Anatole
Authors, American---Biography---20th century
Passing (Identity)
Family
PS3552.R7915 / Z58 2007
92 BRO
One drop : my father's hidden life : a story of race and family secrets / Bliss Broyard - 1st ed. - New York : Little, Brown and Co. , 2007 - 514 p. : illus. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Love at last sight -- Infinity of traces -- Avenues of flight.
Two months before he died of cancer, renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard called his grown son and daughter to his side, to reveal a secret he had kept all their lives and most of his own: he was black. His daughter Bliss learned that her WASPy, privileged Connecticut childhood had come at a price. Ever since his own parents, New Orleans Creoles, had moved to Brooklyn and began to "pass" in order to get work, Anatole had learned to conceal his racial identity. As he grew older and entered the ranks of the New York literary élite, he maintained the façade. Now Bliss tries to make sense of his choices and the impact of this revelation on her own life. She searches out the family she never knew in New York and New Orleans, and considers the profound consequences of racial identity.
English
9780316163507
Broyard, Anatole
Authors, American---Biography---20th century
Passing (Identity)
Family
PS3552.R7915 / Z58 2007
92 BRO
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