Growing Up Black In White is his story about being a biracial kid, born in the racially-charged city of Detroit in 1967 to a white mother and a black father, placed into foster care, and then adopted by a white minister and his wife, the parents of three biological children. Hofmann’s memoir reveals the racial tensions, the difficulties of feeling neither black nor white, his family’s loving support, and his struggles to define and embrace his own identity as he grew to be a man.