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Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White

Brent Staples

Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White

The murder of his younger brother causes Staples to reconsider his childhood and coming-of-age. A vivid portrait of family and place, values and pressures, the appeal and pain of entering a predominantly white world, and the strengths and vulnerabilities of the African American world Staples grew away from.

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Publisher
Pantheon
Year
1994
Genre
Biography & Memoir
Topics
African American experienceFamily and coming-of-ageRace and identity