The Resource Black, white, and Jewish : autobiography of a shifting self, Rebecca Walker
Black, white, and Jewish : autobiography of a shifting self, Rebecca Walker
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- Summary
- In a memoir about the power of race to share one's personal identity, the daughter of Jewish father and African-American mother recalls her confusing but ultimately rewarding life lived between two conflicting ethnic identities. When Mel Leventhal married Alice Walker during the civil rights movement in the late 1960s, his mother declared him dead and did not reconcile until after the birth of her first grandchild. After Mel and Alice divorced, their daughter, Rebecca, alternated homes every two years, spending time in Mississippi, Brooklyn, San Francisco's Haight Ashbury, Washington, D.C., the Bronx, and suburban Westchester. With each new place came a new identity and desperate attempts to fit in: as white or black, as Puerto Rican or Jewish, as a party girl, a fighter, or a lover. Confused, and mostly alone, she turned to sex, drugs, books, and a cast of dangerous and thrilling characters. Black, White, and Jewish is the story of a child's unique struggle for identity and home when nothing in her world told her who she was or where she belonged. Poetic reflections on memory, time, and identity punctuate this gritty exploration of race and sexuality. Rebecca Walker has taken up the lineage of her mother, Alice, whose last name she chose to carry, and has written a lucid and inventive memoir that marks the launch of a major new literary talent
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Black, white, and Jewish : autobiography of a shifting self
- Title
- Black, white, and Jewish
- Title remainder
- autobiography of a shifting self
- Statement of responsibility
- Rebecca Walker
- Title variation
- Black, white, & Jewish
- Subject
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- African American women
- trueAfrican American women -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Daughters
- trueDaughters -- Biography
- trueDaughters -- United States -- Biography
- trueEthnic identity
- Families
- trueIdentity (Psychology)
- trueIntersectionality
- trueJewish American women -- Biography
- Jewish women
- trueJewish women -- United States -- Biography
- trueMultiracial women -- Identity
- trueRace relations
- Racially mixed women
- Racially mixed women -- Race identity -- United States
- Racially mixed women -- United States -- Biography
- trueSelf-acceptance in women
- United States
- Walker, Alice, 1944-
- Walker, Alice, 1944- -- Family
- Walker, Rebecca, 1969 November 17-
- Walker, Rebecca, 1969 November 17-
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In a memoir about the power of race to share one's personal identity, the daughter of Jewish father and African-American mother recalls her confusing but ultimately rewarding life lived between two conflicting ethnic identities. When Mel Leventhal married Alice Walker during the civil rights movement in the late 1960s, his mother declared him dead and did not reconcile until after the birth of her first grandchild. After Mel and Alice divorced, their daughter, Rebecca, alternated homes every two years, spending time in Mississippi, Brooklyn, San Francisco's Haight Ashbury, Washington, D.C., the Bronx, and suburban Westchester. With each new place came a new identity and desperate attempts to fit in: as white or black, as Puerto Rican or Jewish, as a party girl, a fighter, or a lover. Confused, and mostly alone, she turned to sex, drugs, books, and a cast of dangerous and thrilling characters. Black, White, and Jewish is the story of a child's unique struggle for identity and home when nothing in her world told her who she was or where she belonged. Poetic reflections on memory, time, and identity punctuate this gritty exploration of race and sexuality. Rebecca Walker has taken up the lineage of her mother, Alice, whose last name she chose to carry, and has written a lucid and inventive memoir that marks the launch of a major new literary talent
- Award
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- Alex Award, 2002.
- Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Books for Young Adults, 2001.
- Biography type
- autobiography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 164996
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1969 November 17-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Walker, Rebecca
- Dewey number
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- 973.04/96073/0092
- B
- Index
- no index present
- Interest level
- UG
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Reading level
- 6.2
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Study program name
- Accelerated Reader AR
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Walker, Rebecca
- Walker, Alice
- Walker, Alice
- Walker, Rebecca
- Racially mixed women
- Racially mixed women
- Daughters
- African American women
- Jewish women
- African American women
- Daughters
- Families
- Jewish women
- Racially mixed women
- United States
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- autobiography of a shifting self
- Label
- Black, white, and Jewish : autobiography of a shifting self, Rebecca Walker
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm43810881
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 320 pages
- Isbn
- 9781573221696
- Lccn
- 00035292
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)43810881
- Label
- Black, white, and Jewish : autobiography of a shifting self, Rebecca Walker
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm43810881
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 320 pages
- Isbn
- 9781573221696
- Lccn
- 00035292
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)43810881
Subject
- African American women
- trueAfrican American women -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Daughters
- trueDaughters -- Biography
- trueDaughters -- United States -- Biography
- trueEthnic identity
- Families
- trueIdentity (Psychology)
- trueIntersectionality
- trueJewish American women -- Biography
- Jewish women
- trueJewish women -- United States -- Biography
- trueMultiracial women -- Identity
- trueRace relations
- Racially mixed women
- Racially mixed women -- Race identity -- United States
- Racially mixed women -- United States -- Biography
- trueSelf-acceptance in women
- United States
- Walker, Alice, 1944-
- Walker, Alice, 1944- -- Family
- Walker, Rebecca, 1969 November 17-
- Walker, Rebecca, 1969 November 17-
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