Black White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self Paperback - 2002
by Rebecca Walker
Now in paperback, this national bestseller "offers painful childhood memories of straddling two vastly different cultures . . . to fashion a cautionary tale about the power of race in shaping identity" ("Entertainment Weekly").
Summary
The Civil Rights movement brought author Alice Walker and lawyer Mel Leventhal together, and in 1969 their daughter, Rebecca, was born. Some saw this unusual copper-colored girl as an outrage or an oddity; others viewed her as a symbol of harmony, a triumph of love over hate. But after her parents divorced, leaving her a lonely only child ferrying between two worlds that only seemed to grow further apart, Rebecca was no longer sure what she represented. In this book, Rebecca Leventhal Walker attempts to define herself as a soul instead of a symboland offers a new look at the challenge of personal identity, in a story at once strikingly unique and truly universal.
First line
On my first birthday I am given my favorite foods: chitterlings and chocolate cake.
Details
- Title Black White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self
- Author Rebecca Walker
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Riverhead Books, USA
- Date 2002-01-08
- ISBN 9781573229074 / 1573229075
- Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 7.96 x 5.12 x 0.83 in (20.22 x 13.00 x 2.11 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects African American women, Racially mixed people - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 000035292
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Media reviews
"Stunningly honest."—San Francisco Chronicle
"A complex, all-American story."—USA Today
"Walker masterfully illuminates differences between black and white America...A heartbreaking tale of self-creation."—People
"[Walker] offers painful childhood memories of straddling two vastly different cultures—black bohemia and Jewish suburbia—to fashion a cautionary tale about the power of race in shaping identity...[a] highly readable debut."—Entertainment Weekly
"Walker [writes with] elegant, discreet candor...will attract a wealth of well-deserved praise."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A beautifully written meditation on the creation of a woman’s sense of self."—Jane Lazarre, author of Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness
"Powerful...deeply affecting."—Danzy Senna, author of Caucasia
Citations
- Black Issues Book Review, 03/01/2002, Page 35
- Booklist, 04/01/2002, Page 1316
- Kliatt, 03/01/2002, Page 30
- Lambda Book Report, 05/01/2002, Page 30
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