"Growing up in northwest Florida during the 1960s and 1970s brought lessons about the complications of being a mixed-heritage person, neither black nor white, in the Deep South. In the newly integrated junior high school, African American students sat on one side, white students on the other, and Vicki in the middle. Her position in the social hierarchy was conveyed by anonymous notes slipped into her handbag bearing racial epithets or saying she would be better liked if she claimed to be Italian."
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Non-fiction authors from the United StatesHistorians from the United StatesWomen authors from the United StatesWomen born in the 1950sPeople from Georgia (U.S. state)
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Valerie J. Matsumoto
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