I was born in 1948. Even before the day I was born my life had been affected by what was and wasn’t going on in America regarding civil rights. I was well into my thirties before I, a Chinese Black girl who once-upon-a-time passed for white, was acutely aware of …
1967 one year after I graduated from high school. I was lookin’ for love in a frenzy. I think it was this desire to be loved that began my aha moments of knowing I was a Chinese Black Woman passing for White, and even though there were boys who liked …
EXCERPT FROM AUNT GRACE’S WRITINGS I cherish my aunt’s stories. As I write mine, Love Imagined, I try to make sense of how my mother’s “secret” family has influenced me: Grandfather Grandmother and Baby Mama’s mother was a brown skinned girl of fifteen when the red-haired plantation owner’s son …
LOVE IMAGINED: memoir of a Chinese Black Girl Passing for White in South Scandinavian Minneapolis When we talk about the witness in our verse, we talk about you. A pure heart and a noble demeanor cannot compete with your radiant face. They will ask you what you have produced. Say …
