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Join writer Steve Majors as he recounts his search for identity through race, family, generational trauma, queerness, and parenthood in this moving memoir.The white-passing youngest son of a Black American family, journalist and author Steve Majors reflects on his life and experiences as a multi-racial queer man. A poignant narrative of identity formation, rejection, and re-formation, this moving memoir covers themes of generational trauma, abuse, race, sexuality, and family relationships.Adapted for course reading from the original memoir High Yella, this book is ideal reading for higher education students of Black Studies, African American Studies, American Studies, Queer and LGBT+ Studies, Family Studies, and related courses in the social sciences.

They called him 'pale faced'. They called him 'light, bright, almost white'. But most of the time his family called him 'high yella'. Steve Majors was the white passing, youngest son growing up in an all-Black family. This is the poignant account of how he tried to leave his troubled childhood and family behind to create a new identity.