TY - BOOK ID - 128969111 TI - Honky PY - 2001 SN - 0375727752 9780375727757 PB - New York (N.Y.) : Vintage books, DB - UniCat KW - African American children KW - Biografie. KW - Biographie. KW - Children, White KW - Ethnische Beziehungen. KW - Hispanic American children KW - Jugend. KW - Race awareness in children KW - Rassenbeziehung. KW - Social classes KW - Whites KW - Social conditions KW - History KW - Race identity KW - Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) KW - New York- Lower East Side. KW - Social conditions. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:128969111 AB - As recalled in Honky, Dalton Conley's childhood has all of the classic elements of growing up in America. But the fact that he was one of the few white boys in a mostly black and Puerto Rican neighborhood on Manhattan's Lower East Side makes Dalton's childhood unique. At the age of three, he couldn't understand why the infant daughter of the black separatists next door couldn't be his sister, so he kidnapped her. By the time he was a teenager, he realized that not even a parent's devotion could protect his best friend from a stray bullet. Years after the privilege of being white and middle class allowed Conley to leave the projects, his entertaining memoir allows us to see how race and class impact us all. Perfectly pitched and daringly original, Honky is that rare book that entertains even as it informs. ER -