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The Sweeter the Juice : a Family Memoir in Black and White by Haizlip, Shirlee Taylor is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Sweeter the Juice : a Family Memoir in Black and White about?
Growing up in Connecticut in the 1940s and 1950s, the daughter of a prominent black Baptist minister, Shirlee Taylor Haizlip enjoyed a position of privilege and security in her identity that for many years she took for granted. For her mother, Margaret, and the rest of the Morris family, fair skin had been a double-edged legacy, a contrast to the Reverend Taylor's dark, proud, and successful clan. Light enough to pass, Margaret's father and surviving siblings, descendants of an Irish immigrant and a mulatto slave, had disappeared into the white world, abandoning her and cutting themselves off from their tangled roots. Shirlee grew to adulthood moving easily between the black world and the white, but with an unfulfilled dream of discovering what had become of her mother's family. As Margaret approached eighty, her daughter determined to realize that dream. What she unearthed in dusty archives, letters, journals, and other records, is a tale of journeys - physical, emotional, racial, and social - that continues even today. Across the boundaries of race and time, the story spans six generations of both sides of Shirlee's family, ranging form Ireland, North Carolina, Virginia, and Wash
Who reads The Sweeter the Juice : a Family Memoir in Black and White?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Haizlip, Shirlee Taylor
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780671792350
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Social Science, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.96 / 5 (25 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14