Black White and Jewish by Rebecca Walker

Anyway,I feel like your books are great examples of synchronicity in my life, and they always seem to find me at just the right moment. I read it at a time when I was thinking about balancing a PhD program with having a child, and I felt desperately torn and conflicted and uncomfortable with my primal mom urges! Thank you, thank you, thank you for articulating my own anxieties, fears, and longings. After reading your book I was able to feel comfortable articulating just how significant my parents’ divorce had been for me. 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.

But after her parents divorced, leaving her. 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. Indeed, so much of what you had to say about your own family life, and about being a child of divorce made me feel affirmed. : The Civil Rights movement brought author Alice Walker and lawyer Mel Leventhal together, and in 1969 their daughter, Rebecca, was born.

I was also, incidentally, thinking through my own identity as a Jewish Latina, and so much of what you wrote resonated with me. ∽ear Rebecca, I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your work, your honesty, your general loveliness! I first discovered Black White and Jewish when I was an MA student in English, seriously thinking through issues of identity and race in literature.

Black White and Jewish by Rebecca Walker