http://blissbroyard.com/blog Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:54:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since blogging is a new enterprise for me, I’ve been encouraged by the number and range of responses here.  I have appreciated all the comments from people who shared their efforts to answer the question “what are you?” and to understand the aspects of our country’s racial legacy that made ... http://blissbroyard.com/blog/?p=8 Every day I get email from people who, like me, learned later in life about some previously unknown heritage--more often than not African heritage.  The secret finally came out when a parent or grandparent was dying.  Or they stumbled across a census record online where an ancestor was listed "b" or ... http://blissbroyard.com/blog/?p=7 When I found out nearly eighteen years ago about my racial background—just as my father, the late writer Anatole Broyard, was dying, it came out that he had been “passing” as white—I didn’t have anyone in my life to talk to about race.   I’d been raised in a very homogeneous ... http://blissbroyard.com/blog/?p=4