A Question of Color: A Brown Baby's Search for Identity in a Black and White World

After being adopted into a dysfunctional family and becoming southern farm labor with his siblings, Dan grew up experiencing rejection by both blacks and whites. He then made a mature decision to live alone at age fourteen, growing up fast to survive. While attending college, Daniel stumbled upon his childhood picture in a national magazine. Having discovered his past was one big secret, Daniel became motivated to solve the question of his origin. A Question of Color details Daniel’s upbringing, subsequent 25 year search for his birth mother, and his journey through a culture of color, developing a desire to not be identified as black or white—just an American.