"That Ain't Your Name": An Engaged Identity and Other Gifts from a Dysfunctional Southern Family

Download or read book "That Ain't Your Name": An Engaged Identity and Other Gifts from a Dysfunctional Southern Family written by Wade Clark Roof and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was not until 1946 when my grandmother received a copy of the revised birth certificate in the mail from my father and blurted out to me 'That ain't your name,' that I really became aware of the problems. She quickly added, 'Your mother, she never got it right neither.'" This article appears in the Winter 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook. Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for the Study of the American South.