{"id":60213,"date":"2021-02-05T01:26:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T01:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60213"},"modified":"2021-02-05T01:28:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T01:28:06","slug":"surviving-the-white-gaze-a-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60213","title":{"rendered":"Surviving the White Gaze, A Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Surviving-the-White-Gaze\/Rebecca-Carroll\/9781982116255\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Surviving the White Gaze, A Memoir<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Simon &amp; Schuster<\/a><br \/>\n2021-02-02<br \/>\n320 pages<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN-13: 9781982116255<br \/>\neBook ISBN-13: 9781982116323<br \/>\nAudio Book ISBN-13: 9781797119380<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rebel19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Rebecca Carroll<\/strong><\/a>, Host, Managing Editor and Cultural Critic<br \/>\n<em>WNYC Radio, New York, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Surviving-the-White-Gaze\/Rebecca-Carroll\/9781982116255\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net\/book_images\/onix\/cvr9781982116255\/surviving-the-white-gaze-9781982116255_xlg.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful struggle to overcome a completely white childhood in order to forge her identity as a black woman in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">America<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Carroll grew up the only black person in her rural <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Hampshire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Hampshire<\/a> town. Adopted at birth by artistic parents who believed in peace, love, and zero population growth, her early childhood was loving and idyllic\u2014and yet she couldn\u2019t articulate the deep sense of isolation she increasingly felt as she grew older.<\/p>\n<p>Everything changed when she met her birth mother, a young white woman, who consistently undermined Carroll\u2019s sense of her blackness and self-esteem. Carroll\u2019s childhood became harrowing, and her memoir explores the tension between the aching desire for her birth mother\u2019s acceptance, the loyalty she feels toward her adoptive parents, and the search for her racial identity. As an adult, Carroll forged a path from city to city, struggling along the way with difficult boyfriends, depression, eating disorders, and excessive drinking. Ultimately, through the support of her chosen black family, she was able to heal.<\/p>\n<p>Intimate and illuminating, <em>Surviving the White Gaze<\/em> is a timely examination of racism and racial identity in America today, and an extraordinarily moving portrait of resilience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful struggle to overcome a completely white childhood in order to forge her identity as a 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":[5755,22899,7229],"class_list":["post-60213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-new-hampshire","tag-rebecca-carroll","tag-simon-and-schuster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60213","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=60213"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60329,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60213\/revisions\/60329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}