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Author Rebecca Walker
Publisher Riverhead Books 2001
Format paperback
Condition like new
Summary
Rebecca Walker’s Black, White & Jewish is a deeply moving and unflinching memoir that explores identity, belonging, and self-discovery. Born to a Black civil rights lawyer father and a white Jewish mother—the celebrated writer Alice Walker—Rebecca grew up straddling two worlds, never fully at home in either. Raised between New York’s progressive intellectual scene and the more conservative, predominantly Black neighborhoods of the South, Walker shares her coming-of-age story with striking vulnerability.
Her journey unfolds in a series of evocative vignettes that capture the dissonance of growing up biracial in America, navigating shifting family structures, racial tensions, and cultural expectations. She reflects on love, loss, and the complex process of forging an identity in a society that often demands clear-cut definitions. With lyrical prose and raw honesty, Black, White & Jewish is both a personal memoir and a broader meditation on race, class, and the fluidity of selfhood.
A must-read for those interested in intersectional identity, memoirs of mixed heritage, and the search for authenticity in an often divided world.
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