Susan Devan Harness
Autore di Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption
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Her white father held many of the typical racial stereotypes against Indians “Goddam-crazy-drunken-warwhoops”.
Her mother loved her dearly but fought mental illness.
Neither wanted their daughter to search for her birth family. They wanted her to grow up completely assimilated into a white world. They told her that her family had all been killed in a car crash.
But Susan’s very face and color made her a target of anti-Indian racism and she never felt accepted by the white community.
Nor was she accepted by her Indian relatives when she searched and finally found them. They saw her mannerisms, speech, body language and cultural norms as white and foreign.
She was an ‘apple’ – red on the outside, white on the inside; caught between two cultures and accepted by neither.… (altro)