Black Sheep A Blue-Eyed Negro Speaks of Abandonment, Belonging, Racism, and Redemption - Ray Studevent, My Haley PhD - afterword Audiobook

Written by Ray Studevent, My Haley PhD - afterword
Read by Sean Crisden
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps

General Information
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Title: Black Sheep
Subtitle: A Story of Abandonment, Belonging, and Redemption
Author: Ray Studevent
Reader: Sean Crisden
Audiobook Copyright: 2021-05-04
Publisher: HighBridge
Duration: 6 hrs 30 mins
ISBN: 9781696601726
Subjects: Biography

File Information
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Media Format: M4B (AAC)
Total Files: 1
Total Size: 361 MB
Bitrate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Channels: Stereo

Book Description
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Ray Studevent grew up between two worlds. Born to a white, heroin-
addicted mother and black, violently alcoholic father, the odds were
stacked against him from day one. When his parents abandoned him at
the age of five, after living in a world no child should experience,
he was saved from the foster-care system by his father’s uncle Calvin,
who offered him stability and a loving home. When Calvin tragically
died two years later, it was up to his widow, Lemell, to raise Ray.
But this was no easy task. Lemell grew up in the brutality of
segregated Mississippi, emotionally scarred and justifiably resenting
white people. Now, she must confront these demons as she raises a
mixed-race child-white on the outside, black on the inside-on the
eastern side of the Anacostia River, the blackest part of the blackest
city in America.

As Dr. My Haley, the widow of Roots author Alex Haley, wrote in the
Foreword for Black Sheep, “Ray’s pathway to manhood came not through
the people who taught him what to do, but through the woman who taught
him how to be, even as she learned for herself how to be.” At a time
when we are all reexamining the complex issues of race, identity,
disenfranchisement, and belonging, this compelling true story shows us
what is possible when we trust our hearts and follow the path of love.