Professor GREGORY HOWARD WILLIAMS. He spent the first ten years of his life believing he was white in segregated Virginia, and that his dark-skinned father was Italian. When his parents marriage ended, his father took him and his brother to Muncie, Indiana, where the boys learned that they were half black. WILLIAMS has written "Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black" (Dutton) about the struggle and repression he faced growing up between the races. Publisher's Weekly calls it "(an) affecting and absorbing story.
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