Brent Staples
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Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White
Brent Staples
Parallel Time is an evocative memoir that poses universal questions: Where does the family end and the self begin? What do we owe our families, and what do we owe our dreams for ourselves? What part of the past is a gift and what part a shackle? For Brent Staples, there is the added dimension of race: moving from a black world into one largely defined by whites.
As the oldest son among nine children, Brent grew up in a small industrial town near Philadelphia. First a scholarship to a local college and then one for graduate study at the University of…
