Tag: Neil Henry

  • All four books under review here are concerned with telling dramatic tales about singular, real lives. But they are also books about race. They are driven by the larger goal of making the individual story stand for more than itself.

  • Pearl’s Secret: A Black Man’s Search for His White Family University of California Press May 2001 Paperback ISBN: 9780520227309 321 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches, 25 b/w photographs, 2 line illustrations Neil Henry, Associate Professor of Journalism University of California, Berkeley Pearl’s Secret is a remarkable autobiography and family story that combines elements of history,…