Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World is Cole Brown’s debut book. “An honest and sometimes uncomfortable view of growing up Black in white spaces.” Arcade, Pubs 9/15. pic.twitter.com/HUgJH2XanV

— Kathleen Schmidt (@Bookgirl96) August 5, 2020

Category: Nonfiction Essays, Interviews, Black Culture.

We must embrace intersectionality in order to form a complete picture of our vast Black identities. As such, Brown dissects the intersections of race and class in his debut anthology.

“Cole has heard it all before — token, bougie, oreo, Blackish — the things we call the kids like him. Black kids who grow up in white spaces, living at an intersection of race and class that many doubt exists,” reads a description from Arcade Publishing.

“He digs into the places where, in youth, a greyboy’s difference is most acutely felt: parenting, police brutality, Trumpism, depression, and dating, to name a few.”

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