Black, White, and Jewish

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"When Mel Leventhal married Alice Walker during the civil rights movement in the 1960s, his mother declared him dead and sat shiva for him. By the time her parents divorced, when Rebecca was eight, the excitement of the milieu that had brought her parents together and produced a "Movement baby" had died down and the foundation that gave her life meaning dropped out from under her. After their divorce, Rebecca alternated homes every two years, living in Mississippi, Brooklyn, San Francisco, the Bronx, and suburban New York. 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, Rebecca Walker turned to sex, drugs, books, and complicated alliances. Black, White, and Jewish, her much-anticipated memoir, is the story of a child's unique struggle for identity and home when nothing in her world tells her who she is or where she belongs."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: African American women,  Biography,  Daughters,  Family,  Jewish women,  Race identity,  Racially mixed people,  Racially mixed women,  Families,  Interethnische Herkunft,  New York Times reviewed,  African americans, relations with jews,  United states, ethnic relations,  African americans, race identity,  Children of interracial marriage,  African american jews,  Walker, rebecca , 1969 november 17-,  Familywalker, alice , 1944-,  Walker, alice , 1944-,  Racially mixed people--race identity,  Racially mixed people--race identity--united states,  Racially mixed people--united states--biography,  Daughters--united states--biography,  African american women--biography,  Jewish women--united states--biography,  E184.a1 w214 2002,  973.04/96073/0092 b,  18.06

People: Alice Walker (1944-),  Rebecca Walker (1970-)

Places: United States