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A journey through America’s changing landscape of racial identity. In I Used to Be Coloured but Now, I’m Black!, author, musician, and playwright June Harris delivers a powerful personal account of growing up and coming of age — from the era of “coloured” to the pride of “Black.”
With honesty, wit, and hard-won wisdom, Harris reflects on the labels imposed and the identities claimed: the everyday realities of race, the struggle for dignity and self-definition, and the moments — painful and triumphant — that shaped her understanding of who she is. Her story speaks to the broader African-American experience while remaining unmistakably her own.
Originally published in 2010, this is a moving memoir of identity, resilience, and pride — told in a voice that Harris writes as a musician and playwright too, and her performer’s timing gives even the hardest passages their lift. refuses to be silenced or simplified.
In I Used to Be Coloured but Now, I’m Black!, author, musician, and playwright June Harris delivers a powerful personal account of growing up and coming of age through America’s changing landscape of racial identity. From the era of ‘coloured’ to the pride of ‘Black’, she charts a journey that is at once deeply individual and shared by a generation.
With honesty, wit, and hard-won wisdom, Harris reflects on the labels imposed and the identities claimed: the everyday realities of race, the struggle for dignity and self-definition, and the moments — painful and triumphant — that shaped her understanding of who she is. Her story speaks to the broader African-American experience while remaining unmistakably her own.
Originally published in 2010, this is a moving memoir of identity, resilience, and pride — essential reading for anyone interested in the lived history of race in America, told in a voice that refuses to be silenced or simplified.
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