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Denny's Tapes was written by Carolyn Meyer. Denny is a seventeen-year-old male who has a black father and a white mother. He is kicked out of his house by his step-father because his step-father found out that Denny was having a relationship with his daughter. On his journey, Denny learns very much about his black side of his family, his white side of his family, and being mixed.
After Denny is banned from his house, he decides to go visit his grandmother in Chicago, Illinois. While he is there he finds out that all of this side of the family is well educated and doing something productive in their lives that are making them financially and mentally healthy. Denny's grandmother tells Denny why she and the family didn't agree to his father marrying a white woman. She tells him that it wasn't because she was white, but due to the fact that they were in a lower social class than the them and it would make the family look bad.
His grandmother educates him on many African......

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