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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... onthe peripheryofthe giant flattened rectangle ofCairo's concrete Bedouintent.I remember the bougainvillea bushes spilling outfrom clay potsat Nairobi, theItalian Modernwith portholesinMilan,and thehushed, airy cathedralofblond wood ...
... onthe peripheryofthe giant flattened rectangle ofCairo's concrete Bedouintent.I remember the bougainvillea bushes spilling outfrom clay potsat Nairobi, theItalian Modernwith portholesinMilan,and thehushed, airy cathedralofblond wood ...
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... on the other side of town where heis the only white customer, and brings me home alarge order ofthe pigintestines. Mama puts me inmybig woodenhigh chair withthe smooth curved piping, andthen feeds me oneslimy pale gray glob afteranother ...
... on the other side of town where heis the only white customer, and brings me home alarge order ofthe pigintestines. Mama puts me inmybig woodenhigh chair withthe smooth curved piping, andthen feeds me oneslimy pale gray glob afteranother ...
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... onthe curboutside ourhouse in the first black middleclass subdivision in Jackson. Hebounds to the door, gallantly gathers up my very pregnantmother who has been waiting,resplendent inher African A muumuu, and whisks her to the newly ...
... onthe curboutside ourhouse in the first black middleclass subdivision in Jackson. Hebounds to the door, gallantly gathers up my very pregnantmother who has been waiting,resplendent inher African A muumuu, and whisks her to the newly ...
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... on the hill. But maybe I'm being melodramatic. Even thoughI am surely one of thefirst interracial babiesthis hospital hasever seen, maybethe nursestake aliking to my parents, noting with recognition theirineffable humanness: Daddy with ...
... on the hill. But maybe I'm being melodramatic. Even thoughI am surely one of thefirst interracial babiesthis hospital hasever seen, maybethe nursestake aliking to my parents, noting with recognition theirineffable humanness: Daddy with ...
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... onthe cement porch. Linda getssick after afew weeks and can't getout of the extra bedin my room. She tells me secretly, late at night from underneath allour extra quilts and afghans, thatshe wants tostay herewith usforever, that she ...
... onthe cement porch. Linda getssick after afew weeks and can't getout of the extra bedin my room. She tells me secretly, late at night from underneath allour extra quilts and afghans, thatshe wants tostay herewith usforever, that she ...
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Morphology | |
Atlanta | |
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How Memory Works | |
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Monroe | |
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