I'm down

Traces the author's experiences of growing up with a white father who believed himself to be African-American, describing how his efforts to indoctrinate his daughter into black culture caused her to be rejected by her black and white peers. She grew up in a poor black neighborhood with her single father, a white man who truly believed he was black. "He strutted around with a short perm, a Cosby-esque sweater, gold chains and a Kangol, telling jokes like Redd Fox, and giving advice like Jesse Jackson. You could not tell my father he was white. Believe me, I tried," she writes. And so from…