Loving Across the Color Line

Sharon E. Rush

ISBN 10: 0847699129 / ISBN 13: 9780847699124

Published by Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Md & London, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Loving Across the Color Line
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Md & London
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847699129
• ISBN 13: 9780847699124
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New

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Synopsis

What would a liberal, white, civil rights law professor have to learn about race? When Sharon Rush adopted an African American girl, she quickly discovered the need to throw out old assumptions and start learning over again.

This is the moving, heartfelt memoir of a mother and daughter's loving relationship that opened the author's eyes to the harsh realities of the American racial divide. Only by living with her daughter through the day-to-day encounters and life passages did Rush learn that racism is far more devastating to blacks than most whites can ever imagine.

Some of the stories are funny, others are sad, a few are almost unbelievable. But they all are poignant because they illustrate how insightful a little black girl of three can be about race and justice. Their stories also recount the author's struggle, as her daughter grew older, to come to grips with her own growing awareness of racism in America.

With love and spirituality, Rush and her daughter live a deeply joyous life, just as they both have become increasingly active in working publicly and privately against racism. Readers who journey across the color line with the author and her daughter will come away with a real-life encounter with racism and a deeper understanding of it.

About the Author

Sharon Rush is a civil rights lawyer and the Irving Cypen Professor of Law at the University of Florida. She has been studying race for over fifteen years and currently lives with her daughter in Gainesville.