In ‘Black Lotus,’ Author Sil Lai Abrams Explores Search For Racial IdentityPosted in Articles, Asian Diaspora, Audio, Autobiography, Interviews, Media Archive, United States on 2016-08-04 01:48Z by Steven |
In ‘Black Lotus,’ Author Sil Lai Abrams Explores Search For Racial Identity
Here & Now
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2016-08-03
 Sil Lai Abrams, author of “Black Lotus: A Woman’s Search for Racial Identity.” (Courtesy of Che Williams) |
When Sil Lai Abrams was a child, her white father and her Chinese mother explained her dark skin and curly hair were a result of her Hawaiian birthplace. But when she was 14, her father told her that her biological father was a black man.
Abrams struggled for years to figure out just who she was, and tells her story in the new memoir “Black Lotus: A Woman’s Search for Racial Identity.” Abrams joins Here & Now’s Eric Westervelt to talk about the book…
Listen to the interview here. Read an excerpt from the book here.