A mystery book biography about a black woman who is not part of African American history

The history of black and white in the United States deeply cuts through our consciousness. Each of us has an experience and an opinion on the subject. Whether it remembers a black man, a black woman, or a child, it falls short of being considered a “text” worthy of African American history.

The biography of this book represents the story of an unusual drama that had its beginnings wrapped in the usual intolerance of the time. If there is an inspiring story to open our minds and hearts to what we have in common rather than our differences, this mystery book can be considered at the top.

The inexperience of the youth, who often see life through ideals, rarely have the opportunity to deliberately manipulate social justice and force their romantic values ​​on others. Even with the best of intentions, it can wreak havoc on those least prepared to deal with the resulting catastrophe. But this is exactly what happened in the early 1950s.

Fauna Hodel, the Caucasian progeny of a prominently social California family, was given at birth to a black maid, Jimmie Lee, who worked as a bathroom attendant in a Nevada casino. The purpose was to make sure that a black family raised their baby. In the naive eyes of his 16-year-old mother, blacks were the only people capable of unconditional love. To ensure that the boy would never return to his emotionally lonely white family, he provided the father’s race as “black” on the birth certificate. The girl grew up believing that she was mixed race.

This is not only the story of a young black woman and a young woman who struggled to overcome extreme poverty and enormous social prejudice, but also the story of perseverance. But through perseverance and strength of character, the will to overcome these enormous obstacles prevails and succeeds.

To understand how difficult it is to live in a racist world where you clearly don’t belong and yet try to blend in to survive, you need to be able to follow those steps. But our doing so cannot be done voluntarily. To find the true knowledge of emotional and physical dependence requires slavery or kidnapping, two universally frowned upon serious crimes.

Our story begins with the dubious behavior of those responsible who initiated and controlled the events. The actions of Fauna’s grandfather, who was accused and acquitted of incestuous relationships with his daughter Tamar, and Tamar who insisted but did not name the father as “Negro”, and the indifferent grandmother in her determination to eliminate this tragedy from the family, are they become unique. temporary consequences. But for a child, beginning his life buried in a haystack is a life of absurdity.

This story allows us to delve into the life of a young woman as she searches for the truth. We can feel what it is like to not know where it came from, or why it is there in the first place. His only hope is a few words mixed together in a dozen different ways, but never enough to put together an answer.

With a very young Tamar leaving questions unanswered for Fauna, and Jimmie Lee unanswered those questions for fear of losing her daughter, neither mother could foresee the consequences of her actions. Actions that will affect future generations. We can all learn something from this misguided manipulation. This part of African American history should not be left unannounced.