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Article updated: 2/5/2012 2:07 PM

Waukegan black man grew up believing he was white

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There are a few laughs along the emotional path that took Michael Fosberg from his white, suburban roots to the discovery that his biological father is black. He shares a smile here with the crowd at Elgin Community College as he performs his one-man play “Incognito.”

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During his one-man play about that discovery, Fosberg unveils this photograph of his white mom and black father in their tenement in the black Roxbury neighborhood of Boston.

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Michael Fosberg performs his one-man play for an audience at Elgin Community College.

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His skin always has been this light shade, but actor and author Michael Fosberg says his perception of himself as a white, suburban kid changed after he discovered that his biological father is black.

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Michael Fosberg performs his one-man play for an audience at Elgin Community College.

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Joyce Fountain, a sociology professor at Elgin Community College, says we should applaud Michael Fosberg’s one-man play about race because it challenges us to think about the way we view others of all kinds.

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Growing up in a white middle-class suburban family, Michael Fosberg was 33 years old when he learned his biological father was black. He's turned the discovery into an acclaimed one-act play about identity.

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