Tag: Gregory H. Williams

  • Williams spent the first ten years of his life believing he was white in segregated Virginia, and that his dark-skinned father was Italian. When his parents’ marriage ended, his father took him and his brother to Muncie, Indiana, where the boys learned that they were half black.

  • Even today, bigots and the progressive proponents of race science hold fast to the idea of fixed race and ethnicity. Thankfully, Americans largely ignore them.

  • “This damned business of colour”: Passing in African American novels and memoirs Lehigh University 2005-04-28 230 pages Publication Number: AAT 3167071 ISBN: 9780542026218 Irina C. Negrea Presented to the Graduate and Research Committee of Lehigh University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English The topic of this dissertation is an analysis…

  • Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black Plume, an imprint of Penguin February 1996 304 pages 5.35 x 7.95in Paperback ISBN: 9780452275331 ePub eBook ISBN: 9781440665813 Adobe eBook ISBN: 9781440665813 Gregory Howard Williams, President University of Cincinnati Awards Los Angeles Times Book Prize Friends of…

  • University of Cincinnati president has a unique perspective on his life as a black man Cleveland Plain Dealer 2011-09-11 Karen Farkas CLEVELAND, Ohio—Gregory Williams says that in the five decades since he learned he was black and moved into a tarpaper shack with his black grandmother instead of a middle-class home with his white grandmother,…

  • Being Black and White The American Prospect 2001-09-09   E. J. Graff, Associate Director and Senior Researcher The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black By Gregory Howard Williams. Plume (1996), 285 pages, paperback The Color…