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7-10 Split: My Journey As America’s Whitest Black Kid
by Michael Gordon Bennett

    Publication Date: Apr 12, 2015
    List Price: $16.95
    Format: Paperback, 328 pages
    Classification: Nonfiction
    ISBN13: 9780986416200
    Imprint: Bennett Global Entertainment
    Publisher: Bennett Global Entertainment
    Parent Company: Bennett Global Entertainment

    Paperback Description:

    Reflecting on America’s Civil Rights Era, Bennett, co-founder and CEO of Bennett Global Entertainment, Inc., relives his coming-of-age years as a military brat traveling abroad and stateside in this understated, restrained memoir. The Bennett family, with his father in the U.S. Air Force, lives on a series of bases in Spain, Maine, Florida, and Colorado. The military bubble protects them from the challenges of Jim Crow. Bennett writes boldly of intense confusion in his racial identity, alienation within the black community, and unease among his white classmates in every new location. “Was I a white kid in black skin, or a black kid with white sensibilities?” Bennett writes, “Or did any of it matter?” When his battle-fatigued father returns from Vietnam with an alcoholism problem, the family tries to adjust to his erratic behavior, his conduct pushing each member to an emotional breaking point, but they never succumb to his failings. Mastering self-doubt, cultural inertia, and parental miscues, Bennett asserts in his quiet, unforgettable way that persistence and courage will always triumph.—Publishers Weekly



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