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When I Was White by Sarah Valentine is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is When I Was White about?

The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white girl in the suburbs of Philadelphia, and her discovery that her father was a black man.At the age of 27, Sarah Valentine discovered that she was not, in fact, the white girl she had always believed herself to be. She learned the truth of her paternity: that her father was a black man. And she learned the truth about her own identity: mixed race.And so Sarah began the difficult and absorbing journey of changing her identity from white to black. In this memoir, Sarah details the story of the discovery of her identity, how she overcame depression to come to terms with this identity, and, perhaps most importantly, asks: why? Her entire family and community had conspired to maintain her white identity. The supreme discomfort her white family and community felt about addressing issues of race–her race–is a microcosm of race...

Who reads When I Was White?

Author

Sarah Valentine

Publisher

St. Martin's Publishing Group

Published

2015

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Biography, Tragic Life Stories