Gregory Howard WilliamsPosted in Audio, Autobiography, Interviews, Media Archive, Passing, United States, Virginia on 2022-04-05 00:50Z by Steven |
Writer Gregory Howard Williams’ “Life on the Color Line”
Fresh Air with Terry Gross
WHYY FM, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1995-02-21
Terry Gross, Host
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. Williams’ new memoir “Life on the Color Line” is about the struggle and repression he faced growing up between the races. Publisher’s Weekly calls it “(an) affecting and absorbing story.”
Listen to the interview (00:23:10) here. Download the interview here.