BROWN TO DISCUSS “THE INTERRACIAL EXPERIENCE”
March 7, 2001 - Dr. Ursula Brown, author of The Interracial Experience: Growing Up Black/White Racially Mixed in the United States, will discuss her book on Tuesday, April 3 at 1:30 p.m. in the Art Room on the main floor of the Bloomfield College Library. The library is located on the corner of Liberty Street and Oakland Avenue in Bloomfield. The event is free and the public is invited to attend.
The number of black-white mixed marriages has increased by 504 percent in the last 25 years. By gathering hard data as well as a series of intensely personal and revealing vignettes, Dr. Brown offers a rare glimpse into the lives, struggles, frustration, and joys of mixed race people. She investigates psychosocial issues unique to mixed race children. She discusses experiences that influenced their adjustment in a country that has subjected them to racist abuses from the white as well as black side of the racial divide.
Dr. Ursula Brown is a psychotherapist in private practice in Montclair, NJ.
