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This page-turner personal story reveals the inner life of a White woman who finds herself becoming "Black inside". She begins in the sixties as a middle-class WASP free-lance writer for newspapers and magazines. In 1982 she is ordained by a Black church. Selecting from her personal journals, Lee Hart Merrick constantly reflects on the difference between Anglo-American and African-American perceptions, and uncovers her confusion, amazement, fear and faith as she discovers that she is becoming a "reverse oreo."Lee Hart Merrick is the author of 'White Bird: The Private Papers of a Reverse Oreo', published 2000 under ISBN 9780595148929 and ISBN 0595148921.
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