Author Event : Raceless
Sat, Apr 24
|Crowdcast Event
Join us for an afternoon with Georgina Lawton in conversation with Rachael Ibrahim to discuss Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth about Where I Belong.


Time & Location
Apr 24, 2021, 4:00 PM EDT
Crowdcast Event
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ABOUT THE BOOK:
From The Guardian's Georgina Lawton, a moving examination of how racial identity is constructed--through the author's own journey grappling with secrets and stereotypes, having been raised by white parents with no explanation as to why she looked black.
Raised in sleepy English suburbia, Georgina Lawton was no stranger to homogeneity. Her parents were white; her friends were white; there was no reason for her to think she was any different. But over time her brown skin and dark, kinky hair frequently made her a target of prejudice. In Georgina's insistently color-blind household, with no acknowledgement of her difference or access to black culture, she lacked the coordinates to make sense of who she was.
It was only after her father's death that Georgina began to unravel the truth about her parentage--and the racial identity that she had been denied. She fled…