In this riveting memoir, Richard Rizzo describes moving from his Italian-American neighborhood to Harlem in 1949. His mother had married a black man, and from the age of nine well into adulthood he shuttled back and forth between white and black worlds. He survived in these segregated communities by becoming a chameleon. Then, as America changed, he began to discover who he was. His unique experience illuminates the nature of ethnic and racial identity.
In this riveting memoir, Richard Rizzo describes moving from his Italian-American neighborhood to Harlem in 1949. His mother had married a black man, ...