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02451cam a2200301 i 4500 |
| CONTROL NUMBER |
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1290377922 |
| CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
| DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20220927125243.0 |
| FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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211230s2022 nhu 000 0aeng d |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781443463935 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1586423460 |
| SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)1290377922 |
| Canceled/invalid control number |
(OCoLC)1290310438 |
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(OCoLC)1290338111 |
| CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
YDX |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
YDX |
| Modifying agency |
BDX |
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OCO |
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NYP |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
362.734092 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
92 |
| Item number |
M8187 |
| AUTHOR NAME |
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| AUTHOR NAME |
Mooney, Harrison, |
| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Invisible boy : |
| Remainder of title |
a memoir of self-discovery / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Harrison Mooney. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xvi, 310 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
22 cm |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"A gripping memoir from a BC Vancouver Sun journalist who was born to a West African mother, and then adopted as a small boy and raised by a white evangelical family. This is his searing account of being raised by fundamentalists. He grows up as a black kid who had his racial identity mocked and derided all the while being made to participate in the religious fervor of his mother's holy roller church. The religious brainwashing is of course dislocating and crushing for the boy as he grows into a teenager and is consistently abused for being black. He must navigate and survive zealotry, paranoia and prejudice. This is a narrative that amplifies a voice rarely heard: the child at the centre of an interracial adoption. This powerful memoir invites readers to de-centre whiteness as its narrator learns to do the same and considers the controversial adoption practice from the perspective of the families being ripped apart, and the children being stripped of their culture, in order to fill demand for babies in evangelical households. As Harry grows up after a lifetime of internalized anti-blackness, he begins to redefine his terms and reconsider his history. His journey from white cult to black consciousness culminates in a happy reunion with his biological mother, who waited 25 years to tell him the truth: she wanted to keep him. Harrison Mooney's wry, evocative prose style brings accessibility and levity to a deeply personal tale of identity: a black coming-of-age narrative set in a world with little love for black boys. This is a most timely memoir about race, religion and displacement."-- |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Adoptees |
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Black people |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Black people |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Adoption |
| ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
01. English Non Fiction |
