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My Life in Black and White
Villard
January 2006
224 pages
ISBN: 0345481143
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Non-Fiction
"Love has no color," insist Angela Nissel's parents, but
does it have a clue? In this candid, funny, and poignant
memoir, Angela recounts growing up biracial in
Philadelphia-moving back and forth between black inner-city
schools and white prep schools-where her racial ambiguity
and doomed attempts to blend in dog her teen years. Once in
college, Angela experiments with black activism (hoping to
find clarity in extremism), capitalizes on her "exotic" look
at a strip club, and ends up with a major case of the blues
(aka, a racial identity problem). Yet Angela is never down
for the count. After moving to Los Angeles, she discovers
that being multiracial is anything but simple, especially in
terms of dating and romance. By turns a comedy of errors and a moving coming-of-age
chronicle, Mixed traces one woman's unforgettable journey to
self-acceptance and belonging.
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