Conversation with author, David Matthews

Apologies for the shortness of the notice: I have been out sick for a week and just saw the press release for this event myself this morning. I thought it was worth drawing to your attention, however - it sounds like a pleasant way to spend an hour or so at lunch time.

David Matthews, author of Ace of Spades, will discuss his memoir of growing up in segregated 1980s Baltimore as the white-looking son of a Black Nationalist father and a Jewish mother on Tuesday, September 9 from 11:30 am – 1:30 pm at the HCC student center.
Stay for lunch and conversation with the author for a $10.00 fee. Call 410-836-4176 for registration information.

Find this book in our catalog. Here is a summary of the book from our catalog: ""When David Matthew's mother abandoned him as an infant, she left him with white skin and the rumor that he might be half Jewish. For the next twenty years, he remained torn between his actual life in the ghetto of 1980s Baltimore and the world of white privilege he imagined." "Forced to choose between black and white, he took what seemed to him the path of least resistance: he adopted the snarky persona of his well-to-do Jewish classmates, whose lives seemed so much easier than his own. And when his father moved them into a dilapidated house in the heart of the ghetto, Matthews's light skin was suddenly no longer an easy way out: it was a liability. Haunting his every misadventure, from cross burning to drug deals gone awry, was his helplessness to forget the mother he never knew."

See also our catalog for reviews of the book and first chapter excerpts.