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Black child in white family rebels to find identity

(03/31/94 5:00am)

When I tell people my brother is black, their immediate reaction is to laugh. Nervously--not sure if I mean black literally, black-skinned, or just that he's an Irish-Italian-New Jerseyan like me who "acts black." Then I take out my wallet-sized picture of him and me in our pre-kindergarten years--him in his butterfly collar, polyester, little boys' blazer, me in his arms. Then they know.