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Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural.(Review)
Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural Edited by Claudine Chiawei O'Hearn. Pantheon (1998), 273 pages, $13.00 paperback
WHEN I WAS 18, I learned, quite belatedly, that my father's brother had married a black woman. The wedding took place in 1958--the year I was born, the year after my parents married. Instantly I knew that racism had kept me from knowing my uncle (by then dead of a heart attack), my aunt, my cousins. Instantly I knew I would have to find them. But it was one thing to discover that the deepest, most volatile division in the country ran right through my family; actually crossing that divide to claim kinship was, for a long ...
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