Ethel Morgan Smith born April 11, 1952

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is an American author and

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. She first received recognition when her essay ''Come and Be Black for Me'' was published in 1997. Ethel Morgan Smith is not a radical; she tries to mediate between black and white as in her contribution to the article in The New York Times shows: ''Robert Byrd, Living History''. Her essay in The New York Times entitled ''Mother'' documents her hard life being a young black girl, and the circumstances she was born into. Her book ''Reflections of the Other: Being Black in Germany'' was a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2014.

Works

*''From Whence Cometh My Help: The African American Community at Hollins College'' (1999) *''Reflections of the Other: Being Black in Germany'' (2012)

References

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