Black White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting SelfThe 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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Autobiography of a Shifting Self Rebecca Walker. It is about being black, white, and Jewish, born in the throes of the political sixties, comingofage in the conflicted and complex eighties andnineties; but itis also about being achild and ...
Autobiography of a Shifting Self Rebecca Walker. It is about being black, white, and Jewish, born in the throes of the political sixties, comingofage in the conflicted and complex eighties andnineties; but itis also about being achild and ...
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... in Jackson, Mississippi, seventeen monthsafterDr. Kingwas shot. When mymother went into labor myfatherwas in NewOrleans arguinga case on behalfof black people who didn ... A muumuu, and whisks her to the newly desegregated hospital. Jackson.
... in Jackson, Mississippi, seventeen monthsafterDr. Kingwas shot. When mymother went into labor myfatherwas in NewOrleans arguinga case on behalfof black people who didn ... A muumuu, and whisks her to the newly desegregated hospital. Jackson.
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... in the hallways, each encasedinher ownprivatehell. Daddyremembers that I wasborn withmyeyes open, thatI smiled whenI saw him, a lookof recognition piercing the air between us like lightning. Andthen,on my twentyfifth birthday, Daddy ...
... in the hallways, each encasedinher ownprivatehell. Daddyremembers that I wasborn withmyeyes open, thatI smiled whenI saw him, a lookof recognition piercing the air between us like lightning. Andthen,on my twentyfifth birthday, Daddy ...
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Autobiography of a Shifting Self Rebecca Walker. M. JACKSON. ycousinLinda comes from Boston to help take care of me while my mother writes and my father works at the office. Linda has bright red hair ... in the living room, in the sun. Linda.
Autobiography of a Shifting Self Rebecca Walker. M. JACKSON. ycousinLinda comes from Boston to help take care of me while my mother writes and my father works at the office. Linda has bright red hair ... in the living room, in the sun. Linda.
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Autobiography of a Shifting Self Rebecca Walker. M. sofa in the living room, in the sun. Linda lies one way on the corduroy couch, I the other. Before she goes back into her study, Mama covers us with the big, colorful afghan. Linda and ...
Autobiography of a Shifting Self Rebecca Walker. M. sofa in the living room, in the sun. Linda lies one way on the corduroy couch, I the other. Before she goes back into her study, Mama covers us with the big, colorful afghan. Linda and ...
Contents
Brooklyn | |
Morphology | |
Atlanta | |
San Francisco | |
Phoenicia | |
How Memory Works | |
Larchmont San Francisco | |
Monroe | |
Bellingham Ubud | |
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