Exerpts from LOVE IMAGINED

Someone asked me early on why I wrote mostly about my Black identity. I realized it was because that was the identity I was denied. My father is Chinese, an immigrant, arriving in the U.S. when he was eleven. My mother is Negro, according to my birth certificate. However, my mother was “passing” ; for her that meant not telling anyone she was Black, although, come to think of it, I’m not sure she told anyone she was white either. I was brought up to deny who I was. Except, if push came to shove I could say I was Chinese. Funny, how many people ask me if my mother is mixed, black and white. Well, yes, there was that Irish Plantation owner’s son that impregnated my great grandmother; however, there is a history in America that if you have one drop of black blood, you are black, period.

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REVIEWERS WELCOME! LOVE IMAGINED a mixed race memoir

Please contact Modern History Press, victor@lhpress.com, if you have a serious interest in reviewing LOVE IMAGINED. Reviews in  multicultural journals, mixed race journals, feminist journals/Amazon, Goodreads, etc. are more than welcome. Love Imagined: A Mixed Race Memoir Imprint: Modern History Press Author: Sherry Quan Lee Foreword: Lola Osunkoya ISBN-13: PB 978-1-61599 $ …

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NORTH MINNEAPOLIS from LOVE IMAGINED

Truly, I have been working on my book, and if I could just keep editing instead of stopping and starting overwhelmed by my own darn self at times, then maybe LOVE IMAGINED would be off to the publisher.  Actually, I can do this, it’s almost finished (I keep telling myself).  …

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