One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life--A Story of Race and Family Secrets, (Paperback)

from turtlesleap

Anatole Broyard spent most of his life equivocating about his ethnicity. His children were not aware of their father's ethnic heritage until the end of his life. In this memoir, Bliss Broyard attempts to explore what might have driven her father to conceal, or at least obscure, the fact that his ...

from auntieknickers

Anatole Broyard was the New York Times' daily book reviewer for quite a few years. He lived an upper middle class (though usually overextended) life, raising his and his wife's two children in Southport, Connecticut. Shortly before his death, his wife insisted that he tell their children his secr...

from cat-ballou

I had to grit my teeth to get through this one because of the way Bliss Broyard presented herself: shallow, spoiled, and sheltered.I understand that the point of her father's passing as white was to be able to spoil her & give her the sheltered life she lived. But this book is far more useful for...

from Suzieqkc

Bliss Broyard, daughter of New York Times literary critic Anatole Broyard, discovered as an adult that her father passed as white during his adult life. But why did he keep his race a secret even into the 1990s when surely it didn't matter anymore? Why did he keep his young adult children away fr...