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Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self
by Rebecca Walker
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1573221694
- ISBN 13
- 9781573221696
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About This Item
Author-signed first printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.75", is bound in quarter black cloth and black paper-covered boards, with stamped red lettering and author's initials stamped in red on front cover. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. Author's signature and drawing of flower appear on title page. 320 pages.
"When Mel Leventhal married Alice Walker during the civil rights movement in the late 1960s, his mother declared him dead and did not reconcile until after the birth of her first grandchild. After Mel and Alice divorced, their daughter, Rebecca, alternated homes every two years, spending time in Mississippi, Brooklyn, San Francisco's Haight Ashbury, Washington, D.C., the Bronx, and suburban Westchester. With each new place came a new identity and desperate attempts to fit in: as white or black, as Puerto Rican or Jewish, as a party girl, a fighter, or a lover. Confused, and mostly alone, she turned to sex, drugs, books, and a cast of dangerous and thrilling characters. "Black, White, and Jewish" is the story of a child's unique struggle for identity and home when nothing in her world told her who she was or where she belongs."
"When Mel Leventhal married Alice Walker during the civil rights movement in the late 1960s, his mother declared him dead and did not reconcile until after the birth of her first grandchild. After Mel and Alice divorced, their daughter, Rebecca, alternated homes every two years, spending time in Mississippi, Brooklyn, San Francisco's Haight Ashbury, Washington, D.C., the Bronx, and suburban Westchester. With each new place came a new identity and desperate attempts to fit in: as white or black, as Puerto Rican or Jewish, as a party girl, a fighter, or a lover. Confused, and mostly alone, she turned to sex, drugs, books, and a cast of dangerous and thrilling characters. "Black, White, and Jewish" is the story of a child's unique struggle for identity and home when nothing in her world told her who she was or where she belongs."
Synopsis
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 symbol—and offers a new look at the challenge of personal identity, in a story at once strikingly unique and truly universal.
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- Bookseller
- Palimpsest Scholarly Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 628c
- Title
- Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self
- Author
- Rebecca Walker
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1573221694
- ISBN 13
- 9781573221696
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- US Literature
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