Bliss Broyard wrote “One Drop” after her ailing father called her and her brother in to see him before he died. In that conversation she learned that her father had been “passing” as white. Bliss has a blog, and she also has a website where you can find more information.

After growing up for the first twenty-three years of my life as a Wasp in Connecticut, I learned on my father’s deathbed that he had been raised as “colored” in New Orleans and Bed-Stuy Brookyn. This revelation answered some questions, such as why we never saw his family – and raised some new ones such as why did my father chose to live as white and what does all this mean to me.

I’m sure I’ll be ordering the book soon. It sounds fascinating.

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