Greyboy
Finding Blackness in a White World

“Consider the fallen. Tamir was twelve. John Crawford was shopping. Tamir was twelve. Jordan Davis liked rap. Treyvon Martin was in a gated community. Renisha McBride needed help. Tamir was twelve. The sheer randomness of their unnatural ends seems a boast on the measure of death’s wingspan, that it......more

"Greyboy" by Cole Brown is a series of essays about the author's experience growing up as one of the limited number of black people in a majority white environment. Brown's experience as a "token" (his words) range from being one of the only black people vacationing on an island to his experiences a......more

I think that Brown makes some excellent points. However, I really didn't feel the book was very cohesive. I know this is about his experience, but for me it was harder to follow in an audio format. We really do have two caste systems in the USA that are unacknowledged - race and income. Brown is abl......more

-But the lifeline I grabbed onto, the one that dragged me from the swirling cyclone, was authored by mystics who'd plumbed deeper depths than I'd ever come to know. They told of how black Blackness could get and how bright as well. They insisted upon my worth, and their generations became the pedest......more