Notes

• "The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."
• "Neil Henry - a black professor of journalism and former award-winning correspondent for the Washington Post - sets out to piece together the murky details of his family’s racial past. His search for the white branch of his family becomes a deeply personal odyssey, one in which Henry deploys all of his journalistic skills to uncover the paper trail leading to blood relations who have lived for more than a century on the opposite side of the color line. At the same time Henry gives a powerful and vivid account of his black family’s rise to success during the twentieth century. Throughout the course of this gripping story the author reflects on the part that racism and racial ignorance have played in his daily life - from his boyhood in largely white Seattle to his current role as a parent and educator in California. In the book’s stunning climax, the author finally meets his white kin, hears their own story of survival in America, and discovers a great deal about both the sting of racial prejudice as it is woven into the fabric of the nation and his own proud identity as a teacher, father, and black American."–BOOK JACKET