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Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural.(Review)

The American Prospect

| September 10, 2001 | GRAFF, E.J. | COPYRIGHT 2001 The American Prospect, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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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