{"id":55004,"date":"2017-09-29T03:31:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T03:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55004"},"modified":"2017-09-29T03:31:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T03:31:49","slug":"identity-racial-acceptance-explored-in-%e2%80%8bwaterloo-regions-oboc-2017-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55004","title":{"rendered":"Identity, racial acceptance explored in \u200bWaterloo region’s OBOC 2017 pick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Identity, racial acceptance explored in \u200bWaterloo region’s OBOC 2017 pick<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

CBC News<\/a>
\n2017-09-27<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nVeteran author Wayne Grady<\/a> is best known for his compelling writing on science, nature and natural history. Now, his first foray in to fiction, Emancipation Day<\/em><\/a>, has become the One Book One Community selection for Waterloo region for 2017. (Don Denton)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Emancipation Day<\/a> based on story of Grady’s father who kept black heritage secret for 50 years<\/em><\/p>\n

Author Wayne Grady<\/a> spent the first 50 years of his life thinking he was white.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t until he began digging through the archives in Windsor, Ont.<\/a>, that he discovered the truth about his father’s heritage.\u00a0His great-grandfather wasn’t Irish. He was African-American.<\/p>\n

“I felt like the rug had been pulled out from under my feet,” Grady told The Morning Edition<\/em> host Craig Norris<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Working through that revelation is what inspired his first foray into fiction, Emancipation Day<\/em>; the One Book One Community<\/a> pick for Waterloo region<\/a> for 2017.<\/p>\n

“That’s kind of why I started working on the novel, to figure out \u2013 for myself \u2013\u00a0how it changed me or how it affected me. And I eventually realized it didn’t really change me at all. I’m still the same person I was before,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I think I’ve pretty much decided that it doesn’t mean anything, except what society says it means.”…<\/p>\n

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