Life on the color line Book Review by another author

Ever since Horatio Alger told his tale, there has been a genre of biography that deals with the American dream, of how a person can rise above poverty and ignorance and become famous through grit, education and maybe a good mentor. A later version of this genre covers lives of people oppressed by race and poverty who "make good."Gregory Williams’ absorbing Life on the Color Line, subtitled: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black is yet another twist in the litany of the poverty and abuse sub genre. This story reveals how Williams was raised until he was ten years old convinced that he was a white child. His popular and charismatic father Tony, he was told (and never doubted) was Italian; his mother was a tempestuous redhead. After being abandoned by their parents, Gregory and his younger brother were raised by his father’s relatives, who were black. This is when Gregory discovers he is part black.
Williams, now the dean of the Ohio State University College of La...