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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... she says , referring to something which includes , but is much larger than , her brain . Knowing well the limitations of my own mind , I am skeptical , disapproving . " It's the heart , " I say , laying my flat palm over my beating ...
... she says , referring to something which includes , but is much larger than , her brain . Knowing well the limitations of my own mind , I am skeptical , disapproving . " It's the heart , " I say , laying my flat palm over my beating ...
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... she says , and I know what she means . There is safety in four walls , in rituals boiled down into rules . Freedom can feel overwhelming . I would not trade it , but sometimes I want to be told what to do . I want to know constraints ...
... she says , and I know what she means . There is safety in four walls , in rituals boiled down into rules . Freedom can feel overwhelming . I would not trade it , but sometimes I want to be told what to do . I want to know constraints ...
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... She says she wants a black Mustang , rag top . " That car is live , " I say , putting extra em- phasis on live but not sounding quite as smooth as my cousin . " Rag top , " I say , trying it on as we sit together on the cement porch ...
... She says she wants a black Mustang , rag top . " That car is live , " I say , putting extra em- phasis on live but not sounding quite as smooth as my cousin . " Rag top , " I say , trying it on as we sit together on the cement porch ...
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... She says she can't stay away her first born , offer grand child . She drives up a yellow Plymouth Gran Fury and right away starts talking about all the things we don't have and what is wrong with our house . She buys Mama a washer ...
... She says she can't stay away her first born , offer grand child . She drives up a yellow Plymouth Gran Fury and right away starts talking about all the things we don't have and what is wrong with our house . She buys Mama a washer ...
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... pays special attention to me . On picture day she combs my hair , smoothing it away from face . She says that I am pretty , and that even though I am the youngest at my her school , I am the smartest . In the 18 REBECCA WALKER.
... pays special attention to me . On picture day she combs my hair , smoothing it away from face . She says that I am pretty , and that even though I am the youngest at my her school , I am the smartest . In the 18 REBECCA WALKER.
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