photo credit: Keith Allison
Birth Name:
Shane Courtney Battier
Birth Place:
Birmingham, Michigan United States
Birth Date:
September 9, 1978
What Race or Ethnicity?:
African American and Caucasian American
Battier was born to an African American father and a Caucasian mother. An article by Michael Lewis in the New York Times described Battier’s youth as a time when he found it difficult to fit in with both his White and Black friends.
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