Book Cover; Title; Contents; Forward; Preface; Introduction; Class and Race in Negotiating Identity; Born with a Veil; What Is Black Enough?; Living between the Lines; I Reconcile the Irreconcilable; The Social Constructions of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture; The Intersections of Identity; Color-blind; Walking a Thin Line; Becoming Myself; Becoming Comfortable in My Skin; Caught between Two Cultures; Lost in the Middle; Resilience and Resistance; Gotta Keep Climin' All de Time; Finding Zion; Feeling the Pressure to Succeed; Running Hurdles; Reflections on My Survival; Quest for Peace
ReferencesAbout the Contributors, Editors, and Foreword Writer; Index
Summary
A collection of sixteen autobiographical essays by Africans in America, Afro-Caribbean and bi-racial college students, which explore the process of self-discovery and realization of cultural identity
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-289) and index
ReferencesAbout the Contributors, Editors, and Foreword Writer; Index