Title Ace of spades : a memoir / by David Matthews.

Imprint

New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2007.

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department	B MATTHEWS, DAVID	Check Shelf
Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography	B-MATTHEWS MAT	Check Shelf

Edition	1st ed.
Description	xiii, 303 pages ; 22 cm
Contents	Chapter I Mother Nature's Son 1 -- Chapter II I Am a Small Republic 9 -- Chapter III Tragic Mulatto 25 -- Chapter IV The Birth of Cool 36 -- Chapter V Better the Devil You Know 51 -- Chapter VI Restless Natives 68 -- Chapter VII Not Waving but Drowning 90 -- Chapter VIII Harvest Home 108 -- Chapter IX The Serpent's Tooth 133 -- Chapter X The Stations of the Cross 149 -- Chapter XI Faking the Funk 166 -- Chapter XII Dearly Beloved 226 -- Chapter XIII Ace in the Hole 243 -- Chapter XIV The Crossing 255 -- Chapter XV Rebel Without a Pause 268 -- Chapter XVI The Heart of the World 279 -- Chapter XVII Home Come the Angels 296.
Summary	In a memoir of identity and ethnicity, the author describes growing up with his black activist father and his own white skin, the abandonment of his mother, and his life spent caught between two worlds.
Subject	Matthews, David, 1967 November 8-
	Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography.
	African Americans -- Biography.
	Jews -- United States -- Biography.
	Baltimore (Md.) -- Biography.
	Matthews, David, 1967 November 8- (OCoLC)fst01833593
	African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
	Jews. (OCoLC)fst00983135
	Racially mixed people. (OCoLC)fst01086595
	Maryland -- Baltimore. (OCoLC)fst01204292
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	Autobiographies.
ISBN	0805081496 (hardcover)
	9780805081497 (hardcover)
	9780312426316 (paperback)
	0312426313 (paperback)

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