{"id":23450,"date":"2012-05-27T22:06:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T22:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23450"},"modified":"2018-11-13T05:23:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T05:23:43","slug":"black-white-jewish-autobiography-of-a-shifting-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23450","title":{"rendered":"Black White &#038; Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,9781573229074,00.html?Black_White_&amp;_Jewish_Rebecca_Walker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black White &amp; Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Riverhead Press (an imprint of <a href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Penguin Press<\/a>)<br \/>\n2002-01-08<br \/>\n336 pages<br \/>\n5.23 x 8.03in<br \/>\nISBN 9781573229074<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccawalker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rebecca Walker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,9781573229074,00.html?Black_White_&amp;_Jewish_Rebecca_Walker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/static\/covers\/all\/4\/7\/9781573229074L.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>ALA Best Book for Young Adults<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Civil Rights movement brought author <a href=\"http:\/\/alicewalkersgarden.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alice Walker<\/a> 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. But after her parents divorced, leaving her a lonely only child ferrying between two worlds that only seemed to grow further apart, Rebecca was no longer sure what she represented. In this book, Rebecca Leventhal Walker attempts to define herself as a soul instead of a symbol\u2014and offers a new look at the challenge of personal identity, in a story at once strikingly unique and truly universal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black White &amp; Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self Riverhead Press (an imprint of Penguin Press) 2002-01-08 336 pages 5.23 x 8.03in ISBN 9781573229074 Rebecca Walker ALA Best Book for Young Adults The Civil Rights movement brought author Alice Walker and lawyer Mel Leventhal together, and in 1969 their daughter, Rebecca, was born. Some saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,8,17,820],"tags":[6202,362,10924],"class_list":["post-23450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-religion","tag-penguin-press","tag-rebecca-walker","tag-riverhead-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57038,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23450\/revisions\/57038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}