The Color of Love: A Mother's Choice in the Jim Crow South - Softcover

Cheek, Gene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592288987 ISBN 13: 9781592288984

Verlag: The Lyons Press, 2006

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Book by Cheek Gene

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.,."an honest look at the lasting pain caused by injustice and hence merits consideration by public libraries."--"Library Journal""Through plain yet descriptive language seasoned with wry, biting adjectives, he ably conveys the sights, sounds and feelings of his surroundings. His musing are funny and hopeful...""--Publishers Weekly""This is a powerful story of love and forgiveness in the context of racial hatred during a tumultuous time in the South.""--Booklist""Stories like Gene Cheek's challenge us to examine ourselves and to exorcise any racist demons we find lurking there. This is a must-read book for baby-boomers: it personalized the abstraction of America's civil rights movement and shows us that we may not be as enlightened as we believe ourselves to be."--"Winterset Madisonian" "While writing, [the author] gained some understanding and forgivenss. But in this book, the scars still show."-"-Fayetteville Observer" "Cheek writes with brutal honesty in this touching autobiographical account...""--Our State magazine" "Cheek has a truly troubling tale to tell . . . [his] pain is evident throughout . . . a doleful debut."--"Kirkus Reviews"

Reseña del editor:

Nine years after "Brown v. Board of Education," and only a year before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a judge in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, wrenched twelveyear- old Gene Cheek from the security of his mother's devotion. This is a frank account of a love affair between a white woman and a black man that took mother from son and split a family forever.

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• Verlag: The Lyons Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1592288987
• ISBN 13: 9781592288984
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 258