Writers' Series: Bliss Broyard

Fiction writer and memoirist Bliss Broyard speaks about and reads from her memoir, One Drop: My Fathers Hidden Life—A Story of Race and Family Secrets. The daughter of New York Times literary critic Anatole Broyard, Bliss Broyard learned when she was in her early twenties and shortly before her father died in 1990, that she had African ancestry. One Drop explores the reasons behind her fathers choice to pass for white and reveals her own struggle to come to terms with what all of this means for her own identity and sense of self. Her visit to the University of Richmond was sponsored largely in part by the Richmond Quest.

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[WizzoPro9476]

@DaTruth2024 She's a Creole girl! HOLY MAMMY!!!

[FairyMagicPrincess]

@DaTruth2024 my bad he was full black with creole lineages in him.

[FairyMagicPrincess]

@DaTruth2024 his mom was full blach so he was not mostly white.

[DaTruth2024]

Actually her father was a Louisiana Creole of mixed-race lineages. He was mostly European with some Native American and Sub-Saharan African. She herself is only 17% SSA. Most AAs are only (and under) 20% European with little to no Native ancestry.

[psychmaj323]

her father is BLACK, not part, but a full blooded Black man with two black parents, with mixed ancestry like most blacks.

[dianemar]

I am reading her book now and i am thankful she shared her journey with us. It is fascinating and informative. As a 'white' chick growing up near Detroit in the 50's,60's and 70's, it answered tons of questions i had and still have. How we all look at race and how racism affects us. and how it is necessary to be militant and diligent in learning and exposing it in our lives and thought patterns.

[shannonrastelli]

That is such and interesting video. I plan to get the book. You really did a lot of research. Maybe when things like this are in the public, the american people can view history in a more honest, clear picture. Thank you.