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In her memoir, Black by Design, Pauline Black, an award-winning actress and the lead singer for platinum-selling 2-tone band The Selecter, describes what it was like to be a black child adopted in the 1950s by a white, working class family who saw her at best as a curiosity, at worst as an embarrassing inconvenience. She reflects on her experience and what it says about identity with Jackie Kay, author of the remarkable memoir, Red Dust Road.