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100 1  Mooney, Harrison,|eauthor. 
245 10 Invisible boy :|ba memoir of self-discovery /|cHarrison 
       Mooney. 
264  1 Lebanon, New Hampshire :|bSteerforth Press/Truth to Power 
       Books,|c[2022] 
264  4 |c©2022 
300    xiv, 321 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    Includes discussion questions. 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-310). 
520    "A gripping memoir from a BC Vancouver Sun journalist who 
       was born to a West African mother, and then adopted as a 
       small boy and raised by a white evangelical family. This 
       is his searing account of being raised by fundamentalists.
       He grows up as a black kid who had his racial identity 
       mocked and derided all the while being made to participate
       in the religious fervor of his mother's holy roller 
       church. The religious brainwashing is of course 
       dislocating and crushing for the boy as he grows into a 
       teenager and is consistently abused for being black. He 
       must navigate and survive zealotry, paranoia and 
       prejudice. This is a narrative that amplifies a voice 
       rarely heard: the child at the centre of an interracial 
       adoption. This powerful memoir invites readers to de-
       centre whiteness as its narrator learns to do the same and
       considers the controversial adoption practice from the 
       perspective of the families being ripped apart, and the 
       children being stripped of their culture, in order to fill
       demand for babies in evangelical households. As Harry 
       grows up after a lifetime of internalized anti-blackness, 
       he begins to redefine his terms and reconsider his 
       history. His journey from white cult to black 
       consciousness culminates in a happy reunion with his 
       biological mother, who waited 25 years to tell him the 
       truth: she wanted to keep him. Harrison Mooney's wry, 
       evocative prose style brings accessibility and levity to a
       deeply personal tale of identity: a black coming-of-age 
       narrative set in a world with little love for black boys. 
       This is a most timely memoir about race, religion and 
       displacement."--|cProvided by publisher. 
530    Issued also in electronic format. 
600 10 Mooney, Harrison|xChildhood and youth. 
650  0 Adoptees|zCanada|vBiography. 
650  0 Black people|zCanada|vBiography. 
650  0 Black people|xRace identity|zCanada. 
650  0 Adoption|xReligious aspects|xProtestant churches. 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft 
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