She is the author of the memoirs Black, White and Jewish and Baby Love; the novel Adé: A Love Story; and editor of the anthologies To Be Real, What Makes a Man, One Big Happy Family, and Black Cool. Her writing has appeared in Glamour, the Washington Post, Bookforum, BOMB, Newsweek, Vibe, Real Simple, Modern Bride, Essence, More and Interview, among many other magazines and literary Cited by: About Black White and Jewish. The Civil Rights movement brought author Alice Walker and lawyer Mel Leventhal together, and in their daughter, Rebecca, was born. Some saw this unusual copper-colored girl as an outrage or an oddity; others viewed her as a Pages: · Black White Jewish is a compilation of compulsively readable memoirs by Rebecca Walker, who happens to be Alice Walker's daughter. I call them "memoirs" rather than autobiography because the author makes many stylistic choices which, astute though they may be, definitely mar the chronological format/5.
Black White Jewish: Autobiography of A Shifting Self, memoir () To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism (editor) () Rebecca Walker: A Biography. by Candace Hunt (SHS) , Updated Rebecca Walker was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in She is the daughter of Mel Leventhal and Alice Walker. Her father is. Black White and Jewish. Autobiography of a Shifting Self. Praise for Black White and Jewish: "Walker skillfully depicts her tangled upbringing, full of disappointment and privilege." —Time "Walker masterfully illuminates differences between black and white America A heartbreaking tale of self-creation." —People. ― Rebecca Walker, Black White and Jewish. tags: truth. 2 likes. Like "I don't trust the everyday: it is a mask, a sham. It gives the illusion of permanence, of an unshatterable calm, a placid surface; and yet underneath the pot is slowly coming to a boil.".
Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self is a memoir by Rebecca Walker. In this coming-of-age nonfiction book, Walker—the daughter of Alice Walker, the famed African-American novelist who wrote ’s The Color Purple, and Mel Leventhal, a Jewish man—recounts her highly confusing and tumultuous transition from adolescence into adulthood. She is the author of the memoirs Black, White and Jewish and Baby Love; the novel Adé: A Love Story; and editor of the anthologies To Be Real, What Makes a Man, One Big Happy Family, and Black Cool. Her writing has appeared in Glamour, the Washington Post, Bookforum, BOMB, Newsweek, Vibe, Real Simple, Modern Bride, Essence, More and Interview, among many other magazines and literary collections. Rebecca Walker's memoir Black, White, and Jewish, is subtitled "Autobiography of a Shifting Self." Walker states that is a woman who is most comfortable "in airports" because they are "limbo spaces -- blank, undemanding, neutral." (3) In contrast, because of her multi-racial and multi- ethnic identity, she is both never 'neutral' and also never quite 'of a color.'.
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