Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness

"I am Black," Jane Lazarre''s son tells her. "I have a Jewish mother, but I am not ''biracial.'' That term is meaningless to me." In this moving memoir, Jane Lazarre, the white Jewish mother of now adult Black sons, offers a powerful meditation on motherhood and racism in America as she tells the story of how she came to understand the experiences of her African American husband, their growing son...