| Description |
x, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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Originally published: Viking, 2006. |
| Summary |
At four years old, Cross was sent by her white mother, Norma, to live with a childless black couple in Atlantic City. Norma had finally comes to terms with the difficulty of raising a mixed-race child in the 1950s, especially after the failure of her relationship with the child's father, a comic who was part of the famous black vaudeville act Stump and Stumpy. For Cross, it was the beginning of a life of confusion about racial identity, straddling the middle-class black world, where well-mannered behavior might stave off mistreatment, and her mother's freewheeling bohemian life of white entertainers. |
| Subject |
Cross, June -- Childhood and youth.
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Cross, June -- Family.
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Cross family.
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Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography.
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Abandoned children -- United States -- Biography.
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Racially mixed people -- Race identity -- United States.
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Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Case studies.
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United States -- Race relations.
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| ISBN |
0143112112 paperback $15.00 |
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9780143112112 paperback $15.00 |
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