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A concise memoir that traces a life lived among many languages, faiths, and ways of thinking.
It examines how environment shapes race, identity, and belonging, while asking what it means to be a neighbor in a diverse world.
This book blends personal memory with reflections on race, religion, and the immigrant experience. It invites readers to understand how culture, family history, and hardship shape choices, beliefs, and how we treat others.- Discover how the author’s early life across different lands influenced his sense of self.
- Explore themes of race, prejudice, faith, and the search for shared humanity.
- Consider the idea that character and virtue can cross racial and cultural lines.
- Read about moments of courage, compassion, and challenges that illuminate a life in motion.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book traces the extraordinary life of an individual whose childhood was immersed in multiple cultures and languages, creating an autobiography that explores the struggle against racial and ethnic limitations, and the search for identity amid adversity. The author's early life experiences primed them to study the complexities of race, culture and identity, and to challenge the shallow limitations imposed by racial and ethnic divisions. This book adds to the literature of race and ethnicity with deeply personal accounts of struggle and redemption in pursuit of a unified humanity, recognizing the dignity and worth of all people regardless of ethnic origin. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Seller Inventory # 9781331422266_0
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