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Secret Daughter

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July 31, 2012

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In this podcast from The Moth, author June Cross tells how her mother made her keep her heritage a secret because she was mixed-race.

You can listen to June Cross telling her story live without notes from The Moth storytelling stage here and here.

June Cross is now a professor of journalism at Columbia University and she tells more about her experiences in her memoir Secret Daughter: A Mixed Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away (Penguin, 2007).