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Soul Sister: The Story of a White Woman Who Turned Herself Black and Went to Live and Work in Harlem and Mississippi

Grace Halsell changed the color of her skin and sojourned through Black America as a "soul sister."

Few whites have had the guts to embark on such a hazardous adventure. Grace Halsell's ordeal as a black-skinned American is a unique and deeply moving story of what it is really like to be black in a white world. From Harlem to the Mississippi delta, her experiences reveal the hard and bitter truth about men and women trapped in a desperate struggle for survival, identity, and originality.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 212
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780967401300
  • Genres
  • race, history, biography, sociology
  • Release date
  • 1999