In Between Memoir of an Integration Baby edition by Mark MorrisonReed Politics Social Sciences eBooks
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Frank personal account of growing up black during the era of the civil rights movement. The author wrestles with racism, the death of Martin Luther King, black radicalism, his interracial family, and his experience as one of the first black Unitarian Universalist ministers.
In Between Memoir of an Integration Baby gives voice to the unspoken story of those Afro Americans who were among the first to bring racial diversity to their neighborhood, school, church or workplace, to the increasing number of partners in interracial relationships and to those blessed with and yet struggling to raise multiracial children in a polarized world.
In Between Memoir of an Integration Baby edition by Mark MorrisonReed Politics Social Sciences eBooks
Mark Reed tells the story of his life growing up with parents who are well educated and caring. He lives the life that we identify more with white people than with black people but he has to deal with his blackness every time he ventures out his front door. He spends a lot of time at the Unitarian church in Hyde Park (mostly white at that time) and several years at an ecole in Switzerland as the only black student. His journey to becoming a Unitarian-Universalist minister is inevitable as he really finds himself there. This is a wonderful memoir and a good book for everyone to read as it really exposes how difficult it can be for even educated blacks in our country. A good book for everyone!Product details
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In Between Memoir of an Integration Baby edition by Mark MorrisonReed Politics Social Sciences eBooks Reviews
This memoir is a moving story about the author’s attempts to reconcile the warring elements of his life his slave ancestors and his slave trader ancestors; being a nice middle-class cradle Unitarian boy (son of a leading scientist and a social worker) and being a guy who knows what it is to live in fear of the police; being a militant and being a conciliator; being oblivious to racism in his own life and having his stomach tied in knots by white stereotyping and insensitivity. Morrison-Reed, a Unitarian-Universalist minister who has lived his life mostly in a white world, says that “Personal fragmentation was the price of racial integration.”
He also says “I yearn to be integrated - self-integrated.” He’s not interested in what white liberals often mean by integration being swallowed up by the dominant culture to the point where he cannot experience the gift of Black culture and identity inside himself.
He also yearns for American blacks to reach a point where they can see their slavery not as a badge of shame but as a source of pride because they emerged from it truly free – as the Jews do in the many Passover seders he’s attended.
Morrison-Reed is still struggling to resolve these issues in his own life. He offers several sources of hope at the end of the book
• A changing US which is moving beyond a racial Black-white binary to be a nation of many peoples who intermarry increasingly freely with each other
• His emerging ability to love himself unconditionally, with all the contradictions, “just because I am” and
• God – seen as the mysterious divine unity behind our differences, a blend of our distinct identities and therefore capable of giving all-embracing love.
I strongly recommend this moving book.
Fascinating read.
Knowing only that my roots are of undetermined origin from Loudon, Virginia, I found this well-documented family history facilitative to research. The author links and uncovers important events in a forthcoming manner. I enjoyed reading it immensely.
Mark Morrison-Reed has committed a brave act of self-revelation in his autobiography--more so than most writers in that he details the anguish of youth and young-adulthood in an open, candid way that many would suppress rather than interrogate. Mark's narrative of growing-up black in Chicago and Euro-land is self-critical while also providing clear (often witty & ironical) insights into the insensitivities and narrowness of American and European cultural habits of the time (many of which alas persist)--never sparing of the failures and adversities posed. He tells an engaging story of a youth well-played--a story that I hope will be read by many for its charm and candor-- as well as the deepening of appreciation for his success, and the success of many in his generation in overcoming the tough obstacles of mindless racism delivered from every quarter. Bravo Mark!
Mark Reed delivers an honest narrative of the struggle to find his identity while trying to bridge the worlds of White Americans and Afro-Americans. Surrounded by racism in both the white and the black community he managed to make a stand for himself, while confronting the ambitions of his black heritage and the ignorance of white friends. Easy too read, an engaging story, Mark has traveled the world, but unable to escape his demons, he has to face them, and grow in the process. The story is full of humor and the insight of maturity. Considering myself colorblind (being white) this book opened my eyes to just how ignorant I have been to life in other hues of skin. Thanks Mark for Opening my eyes. Highly Recommended, should be mandatory reading in Black History Month (middle-high school)
Mark Reed tells the story of his life growing up with parents who are well educated and caring. He lives the life that we identify more with white people than with black people but he has to deal with his blackness every time he ventures out his front door. He spends a lot of time at the Unitarian church in Hyde Park (mostly white at that time) and several years at an ecole in Switzerland as the only black student. His journey to becoming a Unitarian-Universalist minister is inevitable as he really finds himself there. This is a wonderful memoir and a good book for everyone to read as it really exposes how difficult it can be for even educated blacks in our country. A good book for everyone!
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