America Made Me a Black Man: A Memoir

"When Boyah J. Farah arrived in the United States as a teenager, he expected the country to be paradise. And for a while it was; when he rode his bike down the quiet streets of his Boston suburb, past smiling neighbors with their perfectly manicured lawns, he felt like he was in a sort of heaven. But try as he might to hold on to that image, the reality of American racism eventually began to surface cracks in Farah’s fantasy. This memoir tells the story of what Blackness has meant to Farah, from his childhood in Somalia to his coming-of-age in the Northeast, to the moment as an adult he decided to return to Somalia after decades spent away."