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Divided to the Vein: A Journey into Race and Family
by Minerbrook, Scott
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0151931070
- ISBN 13
- 9780151931071
- Seller
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1996. CC5 - A hard cover first edition withdrawn ex-library book in good- condition with a dust jacket in good+ condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in yellow paper covered boards quarter bound in black cloth with metallic red lettering on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear plus the usual library stamps on the half-title page and top outside paper edges plus the front endpaper has been removed as part of the library's withdrawal process plus the dust jacket endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards plus there is some very light soiling on the outside paper edges plus there is some dogearing of pages 3 through 6. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear plus there is a cut (about 1") on the front bottom edge plus there is a very small nick on the spine plus there is the usual library label on the spine wrapping around onto the back plus the endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. The author's father was black, an aspiring bourgeoisie, and his mother white and from a poor family. This book talks about the author's growing up in the 1950s and 1960s and dealing with the grim realities of racial separatism and willful ignorance of equality and integration. 259p.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 6.25"x9.25". Ex-Library.
Synopsis
Born of a favored son of Chicago's aspiring black bourgeoisie and the idealistic daughter of white Southeast Missouri farmers, Scott Minerbrook grew up in the 1950s and '60s in a world characterized by both the highest ideals of racial integration and the grim realities of racial separatism and willful ignorance. In his late thirties, Minerbrook set out to claim the white grandparents who had refused to recognize his existence. Despite their determination to "keep things just as they are," he knew that bringing down the daunting barrier called race was essential to his humanity, and to theirs. In the course of his journey, Minerbrook takes a hard look at his upbringing and at the lives of his parents and considers how their habits of mind have touched his. Lyrically written, painfully honest, psychologically and socially astute, Minerbrook's memoir challenges all of us to overcome the cult of race and to move beyond it.
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- Seller
- Bookmarc's
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- SCW04939
- Title
- Divided to the Vein: A Journey into Race and Family
- Author
- Minerbrook, Scott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0151931070
- ISBN 13
- 9780151931071
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Nonfiction Non-fiction Memoir Autobiography Racially Mixed People United States Race Relations Sociology Social Science Social Sciences Ethnology Discrimination Racism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography / Memoirs; Social Sciences / Racial Issues; Biography / Autobiography: M-R;
- Size
- 6.25"x9.25"
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