{"id":64250,"date":"2023-05-24T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64250"},"modified":"2023-05-24T14:21:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T14:21:21","slug":"more-than-i-imagined-what-a-black-man-discovered-about-the-white-mother-he-never-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64250","title":{"rendered":"More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew"},"content":{"rendered":"

More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Convergent Books<\/a> (an imprint of Penguin Random House<\/a>)
\n2023-05-02
\n240 Pages
\n5-1\/2 x 8-1\/4
\nHardcover ISBN: 9780593443040<\/p>\n

John Blake<\/strong><\/a>, Award-Winning CNN Journalist<\/p>\n

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An award-winning journalist tells the story of his quest to reconcile with his white mother and the family he\u2019d never met\u2014and how faith brought them all together.<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Blake grew up in a notorious Black neighborhood in inner-city Baltimore<\/a> that became the setting for the HBO series The Wire<\/em><\/a>. There he became a self-described \u201ccloseted biracial person,\u201d hostile toward white people while hiding the truth of his mother\u2019s race. The son of a Black man and a white woman who met when interracial marriage was still illegal, Blake knew this much about his mother: She vanished from his life not long after his birth, and her family rejected him because of his race.<\/p>\n

But at the age of seventeen, Blake had a surprise encounter that uncovered a disturbing family secret. This launched him on a quest to reconcile with his white family. His search centered on two questions: \u201cWhere is my mother?\u201d and \u201cWhere do I belong?\u201d More Than I Imagined is Blake\u2019s propulsive true story about how he answered those questions with the help of an interracial church, a loving caregiver\u2019s sacrifice, and an inexplicable childhood encounter that taught him the importance of forgiveness.<\/p>\n

Blake covered some of the biggest stories about race in America for twenty-five years before realizing that \u201cfacts don\u2019t change people, relationships do.\u201d He owes this discovery to \u201cradical integration,\u201d which was the only way forward for him and his family\u2014and is the only way forward for America as a multiracial democracy. More Than I Imagined<\/em> is a hopeful story for our difficult times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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