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Twilight people [[electronic resource] ] : one man's journey to find his roots / / David Houze



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Autore: Houze David <1965-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Twilight people [[electronic resource] ] : one man's journey to find his roots / / David Houze Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
Disciplina: 916.804/6508996073
Soggetto topico: African Americans
African Americans - Civil rights - Southern States - History - 20th century
Civil rights movements - Southern States - History - 20th century
Apartheid - South Africa
Siblings
Soggetto geografico: Southern States Race relations
South Africa Race relations
Soggetto non controllato: abandonment
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
Note generali: "The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: David 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Twilight people  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-93174-2
1-282-35764-6
9786612357640
1-59875-947-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910783666103321
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