04850nam 2201189Ia 450 991078366610332120220725223835.00-520-93174-21-282-35764-697866123576401-59875-947-710.1525/9780520931749(CKB)1000000000246862(EBL)255700(OCoLC)475970672(SSID)ssj0000263161(PQKBManifestationID)11195217(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000263161(PQKBWorkID)10272107(PQKB)11563755(OCoLC)647484271(MiAaPQ)EBC255700(DE-B1597)520709(OCoLC)66276594(DE-B1597)9780520931749(Au-PeEL)EBL255700(CaPaEBR)ebr10120302(CaONFJC)MIL235764(EXLCZ)99100000000024686220051214d2006 ub 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrTwilight people[electronic resource] one man's journey to find his roots /David HouzeBerkeley University of California Pressc20061 online resource (353 p.)The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies Twilight people"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."0-520-24398-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Twilight People --Contents --Author's Note --Prologue --1. From Down South to Down South --2. Into the Breach --3. Truth and Reconciliation --Epilogue --Postscript --Acknowledgments --Notes --Bibliography --IndexDavid Houze was twenty-six and living in a single room occupancy hotel in Atlanta when he discovered that three little girls in an old photo he'd seen years earlier were actually his sisters. The girls had been left behind in South Africa when Houze and his mother fled the country in 1966, at the height of apartheid, to start a new life in Meridian, Mississippi, with Houze's American father. This revelation triggers a journey of self-discovery and reconnection that ranges from the shores of South Africa to the dirt roads of Mississippi-and back. Gripping, vivid, and poignant, this deeply personal narrative uses the unraveling mystery of Houze's family and his quest for identity as a prism through which to view the tumultuous events of the civil rights movement in Mississippi and the rise and fall of apartheid in South Africa. Twilight People is a stirring memoir that grapples with issues of family, love, abandonment, and ultimately, forgiveness and reconciliation. It is also a spellbinding detective story-steeped in racial politics and the troubled history of two continents-of one man's search for the truth behind the enigmas of his, and his mother's, lives.African AmericansBiographyAfrican AmericansCivil rightsSouthern StatesHistory20th centuryCivil rights movementsSouthern StatesHistory20th centuryApartheidSouth AfricaSiblingsSouthern StatesRace relationsSouth AfricaRace relationsabandonment.africa.african american.american south.apartheid.autobiography.biography.black.civil rights.colonialism.discrimination.ex pat.expatriate.family.forgiveness.history.identity.immigration.imperialism.lost family.lost siblings.memoir.mississippi.nonfiction.personal narrative.political history.prejudice.race.racial politics.racism.reconciliation.refugee.self discovery.sisters.social history.social issues.south africa.African AmericansAfrican AmericansCivil rightsHistoryCivil rights movementsHistoryApartheidSiblings.916.804/6508996073Houze David1965-1535541MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783666103321Twilight people3783841UNINA