BEYOND THE WHITENESS OF WHITENESS

I am Black, Jane Lazarre's son tells her. I have a Jewish mother, but I am not 'biracial.' That term is meaningless to me. In this m oving memoir, Jane Lazarre, the white Jewish mother of now adult Black sons, offers a powerful meditation on motherhood and racism i n America as she tells the story of how she came to understand the experiences of her African American husband, their growing sons, and their extended family. Recounting her education, as a wife, mother, and scholar-teacher, into the realities of African American life, Laza...[Read more]