In Black and White: Memories of Racism, Innocence, and Revelation - Softcover

Pearson, Robert W

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1686593457 ISBN 13: 9781686593451

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

This memoir is a story about the many magical minutes that populated a boy’s childhood as he grew up in St. Louis during the 1950s and 1960s. But it’s also about the collective fears of the time: polio, communism, nuclear annihilation, homosexuality, Catholicism, women’s rights, and a black family moving next door. It’s about the bigotry that his parents and his culture taught him. Equally important, it's about the people and events that helped him begin to realize the injustice that prejudices leave in their wake. It is about people in his childhood and youth who challenged him, provided support and comfort, and offered safety from a family that was often dysfunctional.It's about a young boy who began a journey to challenge the prejudices he learned. It's about a boy who was taught to see a world in black and white but who began to glimpse its many colors.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1686593457
• ISBN 13: 9781686593451
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 247