Writer Shirlee Taylor Haizlip.
Writer Shirlee Taylor Haizlip. Her book "The Sweeter the Juice: a Family Memoir in Black and White," (Simon & Schuster), chronicles her exploration of six generations of her multiracial family tree. Haizlip is a light-skinned African-American. Her father was a prominent black Baptist minister in Connecticut. Her mother was the descendant of an Irish immigrant and a mulatto slave. The lineage of Haizlip's mother's family was unclear because early in Haizlip's mother's life she was separated from the rest of her family who "disappeared" into the white world.
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