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Title: The Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White by Shirlee Taylor Haizlip ISBN: 0-671-89933-3 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 27 January, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.07 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Blacker the Berry
Comment: Since I saw you on Oprah several years ago, I have been wanting to thank you for making this unparalleled contribution to our nation's history and literature. Books like yours will free us from racism, because they tell the truth despite generations of lies. I read Sweeter the Juice when I was in the 8th grade and it really shows me just how ridiculous this black-white-gray-beige thing is in our country. This book shows what a horrible society we are in when we force families to draw racial dividing lines on their love for their children and grandchildren. Your mother is an amazing human being to have endured so much rejection and loneliness as a child and then to put that all aside, and provide a loving home for you and your siblings.
Although the pictures of my faded brown ancestors look very much like your family's, I was raised in a family that has always acknowledged their African heritage. I have heard stories of distant uncles that have passed in order to ge! t jobs, but they returned to their black wives when they came home. This book shows me how fortunate I am that my grandparents didn't use the "benefit" of their blue, green, and hazel eyes to escape their true ethnicity. I have been raised in a family that has always taken great pride in being the first black people to accomplish something in their field of expertise. They enjoy the struggle, because it has always meant that with merely the power of their life, they have dismantled the system and created enough leverage for other blacks to persevere.
Your book is so great because it gets people to think of themselves and their ancestry in a more three dimensional way. It stops people from only claiming the ancestors that they most resemble. It makes people appreciate all of the million of lives that had to exist in order for them to simply be born. When I came from reading the book I didn't feel like I wanted to be color blind, but rather appreciative that I live! d and was a product of so many different cultures.
The p! art that I love is when you talk about how something like 95% ( I forgot the exact figure), of white Americans have black ancestry. That is one statistic I have been quoting ever since I read that page. And you should see how many of my white listeners seem to be praying they are apart of that remaining 5%. I rarely put this book down.
Thank you again for your years of research for this book. You have helped to enlighten countless individuals and families not to mention the nation.
Rating: 5
Summary: A book to remember
Comment: The Sweeter the Juice made me realize that not all famlies are not perfect, especially when dealing with the issue of race. I read this book from cover to cover and then I read it again.
The author writes matter of factly about the history of her family whose color line spans black, white and in between. It is a book you shed no tears over even though you feel grief for a family parted by racial intolerence; rather you feel elated that the story is being told at all because such a history was often a hidden history.
Thumbs up to Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, she has written a real eye opener, especially with reference to the first US President George Washington. His uncle fathered a son by a slave woman who in turn became the founder of Shirlee Taylor Haizlip's maternal family. History is every colour under the sun, even the history of presidents.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very enjoyable, while still intense book....
Comment: I enjoyed this book from cover to cover. Sure, some of it was confusing, like some said, but what part of genealogy isn't confusing? My own genealogy confuses ME! :o) This book was wonderful! I think the author did a wonderful job in addressing this little spoken of topic. I was recommended this book after I found out that my family had African American roots, & so this book hit home with me. It aided me through an emotional journey...answering many of the questions such as: "Why so many secrets?" It also helped me to understand that some of my family members will never in their lifetimes will willing to openly talk about this subject, but the book confirmed my feelings that it's their loss. Thanks & kudos to the author!!
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Title: Finding Grace : Two Sisters and the Search for Meaning Beyond the Color Line by Shirlee Haizlip ISBN: 0743200535 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black by Gregory Howard Williams ISBN: 0452275334 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: February, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: In the Garden of Our Dreams : Memoirs of Our Marriage by Harold Haizlip, Shirlee T. Haizlip ISBN: 0385497598 Publisher: Anchor Pub Pub. Date: 15 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Sweet Hell Inside: A Family History by Edward Ball ISBN: B000093TQE Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride ISBN: 1573225789 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: February, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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