DIVIDED TO THE VEIN: A JOURNEY INTO RACE AND FAMILY

Minerbrook, Scott

ISBN 10: 0151931070 / ISBN 13: 9780151931071

Published by Harcourt Brace & Company, NY, 1996

About this Item

Frontis. Illustrated. 259pp. Black cloth spine with metallic red title and mustard paper over boards. Pictorial Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 003959

Bibliographic Details

• Title: DIVIDED TO THE VEIN: A JOURNEY INTO RACE AND FAMILY
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company, NY
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151931070
• ISBN 13: 9780151931071
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Book Type: Hardcover

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Synopsis

The son of an African-American father and white mother presents a lyrical and incisive memoir of growing up during the civil rights movement and his attempts to bring down the barriers of race that had kept his white grandparents from acknowledging his existence. Tour.

About the Author

Scott Minerbrook's parents hail from opposite ends of the cultural spectrum. His father was a pampered only child born into Chicago's aspiring black bourgeoisie, while his mother was an idealistic girl from a large family of poor white Missouri farmers. Minerbrook grew up in the 1950s and '60s, in a world that was fighting the grim realities of racial separatism and willful ignorance with the ideals of equality and integration. At home, his parents fought each other and a host of personal demons, even as they raised four boys, excelled in their careers, and moved from Chicago, to Manhattan's Upper West Side, and finally to the leafy suburbs of Connecticut. Minerbrook completed his schooling at Harvard's burgeoning African-American studies department and went on to raise a family of his own. But by the time he reached his late thirties, he was no longer satisfied with living an emotional half-life, rejecting and rejected by so much of his flesh and blood. He set out for his mother's hometown in the Botheel of Missouri, determined to claim the white relatives who had refused to recognize his existence. Despite their desire 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.