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Title Greyboy : finding blackness in a white world / Cole Brown ; afterword by Michael Eric Dyson ; foreword by Elaine Welteroth.
Author Brown, Cole, author.
Publication Info. New York : Arcade Publishing, 2021.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  305.896 BRO    Check Shelves
Description ix, 228 pages ; 21 cm
text rdacontent
unmediated rdamedia
volume rdacarrier
Summary "Cole has heard it all before--token, bougie, oreo, Blackish--the things we call the kids like him. Black kids who grow up in white spaces, living at an intersection of race and class that many doubt exists. He needed to get far away from the preppy site of his upbringing before he could make sense of it all. Through a series of personal anecdotes and interviews with his peers, Cole transports us to his adolescence and explores what it's like to be young and in search of identity. He digs into the places where, in youth, a greyboy's difference is most acutely felt: parenting, police brutality, Trumpism, depression, and dating, to name a few. 'Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World' asks an important question: What is Blackness? It also provides the answer: Much more than you thought, dammit."--Page 2 of cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Subject African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Racism -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
Social classes -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
United States -- Race relations -- 21st century.
Genre Autobiographies.
ISBN 9781950994137 (pbk.) : $17.99
1950994139 (pbk.)