Black Baby White Hands: A View from the Crib
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Jaiya John's memoir opens with his own early years, beginning with the months after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, when he was placed with a white family through adoption. Written from a child's point of view, the book aims to show what that early life felt like from the inside. Its candid account of growing up as a Black child in a white household explores identity, belonging and the emotional weight of being raised across racial lines. It is a personal and intimate portrait of a childhood shaped by a turbulent moment in American history.
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