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Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self is a 2002 autobiography by the American feminist writer Rebecca Walker . About. Born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1969, Rebecca Walker is the daughter of the African American womanist writer Alice Walker and the Jewish-American civil rights lawyer Melvyn R. Leventhal.
Black White and Jewish. Rebecca Walker. 3.78. 2,910 ratings240 reviews. The 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.
“Walker masterfully illuminates differences between black and white America…A heartbreaking tale of self-creation.”— People “[Walker] offers painful childhood memories of straddling two vastly different cultures—black bohemia and Jewish suburbia—to fashion a cautionary tale about the power of race in shaping identity…[a] highly ...
In her memoir Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self (2000), Walker explores her early years in Mississippi as the child of parents who were active in the later years of the Civil Rights Movement.
be deployed strategically in Black, White and Jewish, not in a way to reclaim or remove the power from the controlling images surround-ing mixed-race African American women, but rather, to enact the stereotype of the Tragic Mulatto and illustrate the impossibility of col-orblindness. Mixed-race memoirs are a recent phe-
Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self. Rebecca Walker. Riverhead Books, $23.95 (320pp) ISBN 978-1-57322-169-6.
Riverhead, $23.95. desperate yearning for acceptance colors most of the childhood memories Rebecca Walker recounts in her memoir, ''Black, White and Jewish.''. The daughter of the black writer Alice Walker and a white Jewish lawyer, Mel Leventhal, Rebecca Walker writes that her confusion about being biracial began when her parents divorced when ...
