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Black White and Jewish : Autobiography of a Shifting Self by Rebecca Walker (2002, Uk-B Format Paperback)

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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-101573229075
ISBN-139781573229074
eBay Product ID (ePID)2198362

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Book TitleBlack White and Jewish : Autobiography of a Shifting Self
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2002
TopicWomen, Cultural Heritage, Personal Memoirs, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorRebecca Walker
FormatUk-B Format Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight10.2 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.1 in

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Reviews"Compelling."-- The Washington Post "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, "Compelling."- The Washington Post "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
Dewey Edition21
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal973.04/96073/0092 B
Grade ToUP
SynopsisThe 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.
LC Classification NumberE185.97.H35

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  • by veeptrekker
    28 Oct, 2016

    Very weird stuff

    This is supposed to be about the difficulties of being a mixed race child growing up, but it never addresses that at all. The author apparently thinks she does, but fails to. It's more about bad parenting and how that resulted in a very confused girl lacking any moral foundations, making terrible decisions and learning nothing from it. An abortion at 14 years old, which her parents weren't upset about and which she herself has never felt any guilt over. Drug use, alcohol abuse abound, all of which she blames on being bi-racial when the cause was the lack of good parents. It is also badly composed, it's so disjointed that at any given time, the reader is unsure what age she is when this or that happens to her. Sometimes, she seems to be in two cities at the same time, and in several schools thousands of miles apart. I kept reading, hoping eventually to find some redeeming message, it never happened.

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