{"id":55224,"date":"2017-11-20T02:50:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T02:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55224"},"modified":"2017-11-20T02:50:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T02:50:21","slug":"real-american-a-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55224","title":{"rendered":"Real American: A Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.julielythcotthaims.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Real American: A Memoir<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/henryholt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Henry Holt and Co.<\/a><br \/>\n2017-10-03<br \/>\n288 pages<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 9781250137746<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.julielythcotthaims.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Julie Lythcott-Haims<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9781250137746\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.macmillan.com\/folio-assets\/macmillan_us_frontbookcovers_1000H\/9781250137746.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A fearless debut memoir in which beloved and bestselling <em>How to Raise an Adult<\/em> author Julie Lythcott-Haims pulls no punches in her recollections of growing up a biracial black woman in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bringing a poetic sensibility to her prose to stunning effect, Lythcott-Haims briskly and stirringly evokes her personal battle with the low self-esteem that American racism routinely inflicts on people of color. The only child of a marriage between an African-American father and a white British mother, she shows indelibly how so-called &#8220;micro&#8221; aggressions in addition to blunt force insults can puncture a person&#8217;s inner life with a thousand sharp cuts. <em>Real American<\/em> expresses also, through Lythcott-Haims\u2019s path to self-acceptance, the healing power of community in overcoming the hurtful isolation of being incessantly considered &#8220;the other.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fearless debut memoir in which beloved and bestselling How to Raise an Adult author Julie Lythcott-Haims pulls no punches in her recollections of growing up a biracial black woman in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,8,17,20],"tags":[25458,27669],"class_list":["post-55224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-henry-holt-and-co","tag-julie-lythcott-haims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55224","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=55224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55225,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55224\/revisions\/55225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}