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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b11917951.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "320 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Black, white, and Jewish.".
- catalog identifier "1573221694 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Black, white, and Jewish.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Riverhead Books,".
- catalog relation "Black, white, and Jewish.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "973.04/96073/0092 B 21".
- catalog subject "African American women Biography.".
- catalog subject "Daughters United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "E184.A1 W214 2001".
- catalog subject "Jewish women United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Racially mixed people United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Racially mixed people United States Race identity.".
- catalog subject "Racially mixed women Race identity United States.".
- catalog subject "Racially mixed women United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Walker, Alice, 1944- Family.".
- catalog subject "Walker, Rebecca, 1969 November 17-".
- catalog subject "Walker, Rebecca.".
- catalog title "Black, white, and Jewish : autobiography of a shifting self / Rebecca Walker.".
- catalog type "text".