Twilight people : one man's journey to find his roots / David Houze.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Houze, David, 1965-

Series:

The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies Twilight people

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Houze, David, 1965-.

Houze, David.

African Americans--Biography.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Apartheid--South Africa.

Apartheid.

Siblings.

Southern States--Race relations.

Southern States.

South Africa--Race relations.

South Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

David Houze was twenty-six and living in a single room occupancy hotel in Atlanta when he discovered that three little girls in an old photo he'd seen years earlier were actually his sisters. The girls had been left behind in South Africa when Houze and his mother fled the country in 1966, at the height of apartheid, to start a new life in Meridian, Mississippi, with Houze's American father. This revelation triggers a journey of self-discovery and reconnection that ranges from the shores of South Africa to the dirt roads of Mississippi-and back. Gripping, vivid, and poignant, this deeply personal narrative uses the unraveling mystery of Houze's family and his quest for identity as a prism through which to view the tumultuous events of the civil rights movement in Mississippi and the rise and fall of apartheid in South Africa. Twilight People is a stirring memoir that grapples with issues of family, love, abandonment, and ultimately, forgiveness and reconciliation. It is also a spellbinding detective story-steeped in racial politics and the troubled history of two continents-of one man's search for the truth behind the enigmas of his, and his mother's, lives.

Contents:

Front matter

Twilight People

Contents

Author's Note

Prologue

1. From Down South to Down South

2. Into the Breach

3. Truth and Reconciliation

Epilogue

Postscript

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786612357640

9780520931749

0520931742

9781282357648

1282357646

9781598759471

1598759477

OCLC:

475970672