Sweeter the Juice A Family Memoir in Black and White

Name: Sweeter the Juice A Family Memoir in Black and White
Price: 3.23 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780671899332

ISBN-10: 0671899333

ISBN-13: 9780671899332

Edition: 1995 (Reprint)

Authors: Shirlee Haizlip

List price: $19.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $18.28

Marketplace

5 new & used from $3.23

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

The Sweeter the Juice is a provocative memoir that goes to the heart of our American identity. Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, in an effort to reconcile the dissonance between her black persona and her undeniably multiracial heritage, started on a journey of discovery that took her over thousands of miles and hundreds of years. While searching for her mother's family, Haizlip confronted the deeply intertwined but often suppressed tensions between race and skin color. We are drawn in by the story of an African-American family. Some members chose to "cross over" and "pass" for white while others enjoyed a successful black life. Their stories weave a tale of tangled ancestry, mixed blood,…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 1/27/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Shirlee Taylor Haizlipis a native of Connecticut. After living all of her early life on the East Coast, she lived and worked for eight years in the U.S. Virgin Islands. She returned to New York and Connecticut and is now settled in Los Angeles with her husband. The mother of two Yale-educated daughters, she is the author ofThe Sweeter the Juice and,with her husband,In the Garden of Our Dreams.