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High Yella - A Modern Family Memoir

Steve Majors

Narrator Terrence Kidd

Publisher: HighBridge Audio

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Summary

They called him "pale faced or mixed race" or "light, bright, almost white." But most of the time his family called him "high yella." Steve Majors was the white passing, youngest son of an all-Black family that struggled with poverty, abuse, and generational trauma. High Yella is the poignant account of how he tried to leave his troubled childhood and family behind to create a new identity, only to discover he ultimately needed to return home to truly find himself and help his two adopted Black daughters find their own place in the world. In his remarkable and moving memoir, Majors gathers the shards of a broken past to piece together a portrait of a man on an extraordinary journey toward Blackness, queerness, and parenthood. High Yella delivers its hard-won lessons on love, life, and family with exceptional grace.
Duration: about 10 hours (09:54:47)
Publishing date: 2021-11-16; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2021. Copyright Statment: —