A Multiracial Experience
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Join writer Steve Majors as he recounts his search for identity through race, family, generational trauma, queerness, and parenthood in this moving memoir.
The white-passing youngest son of a Black American family, journalist and author Steve Majors reflects on his life and experiences as a multi-racial queer man. A poignant narrative of identity formation, rejection, and re-formation, this moving memoir covers themes of generational trauma, abuse, race, sexuality, and family relationships.
Adapted for course reading from the original memoir High Yella, this book is ideal reading for higher education students of Black Studies, African American Studies, American Studies, Queer and LGBT+ Studies, Family Studies, and related courses in the social sciences.
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Steve Majors is a former television news journalist who worked for media organizations such as NBC News and most recently for mission-driven national nonprofits. His essays on race, culture, and identity have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, and other outlets. Currently he serves as vice president of marketing for a national education nonprofit serving marginalized students. He lives in suburban Maryland with his family.
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Introduction
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Chapter 1 The music man
Chapter 2 Ole cat eyes
Chapter 3 Light, bright, and almost white
Chapter 4 Oreo
Chapter 5 Pops' blood
Chapter 6 Queens of the hill
Chapter 7 A shadow of myself
Chapter 8 Making do without
Chapter 9 The house on the hill
Chapter 10 Neecie
Chapter 11 Wild child
Chapter 12 Don't trust that bitch
Chapter 13 One step forward
Chapter 14 Ole hot ass
Chapter 15 The traveling salesman
Chapter 16 Sissified
Chapter 17 White lies, dark secrets
Chapter 18 There's no place like home
Chapter 19 Shit happens
Chapter 20 The secret inside her
Chapter 21 Dead or in jail
Chapter 22 A family of choice
Chapter 23 The wounds that won't heal
Chapter 24 Blood is thicker
Chapter 25 Sins of the fathers
Chapter 26 All the dirt
Chapter 27 One last time
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