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Pearl
Title: Pearl
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 2848 | Pages: 12.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Pearl
PEARL’S SECRET
Neil Henry’s Pearl’s Secret is a fascinating autobiographical journey of an African American man’s search for his racial identity. Henry is a light-skinned African American man who tries to piece together a few scraps passed down in his family and many years of family stories to figure out what lies behind his dual-race history. He has been plagued throughout his entire life by confusion over his skin color and
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been made in race relations over the past 140 years (since the Civil War and when Arthur Beaumont fathered Pearl Brumley), the widest divide in our country is still that between blacks and whites. If history is ignored we are deemed to repeat the sins of our ancestors. All people need to take Neil Henry’s lead and look to their past not only to better understand themselves, but more importantly as guidance for their future.
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