![]() ![]() Poetic reflections on memory, time, and identity punctuate this gritty exploration of race and sexuality. This is the story of a child's unique struggle for identity and home when nothing in her world showed her who she was. Confused, and mostly alone, she turned to sex, drugs, books and a cast of characters who walked the edge. Being black, white, and Jewish, but none of these things, Rebecca turned, chameleon-like, into whomever she needed to be, whether she was in Mississippi, Brooklyn, Washington, DC, the Haight, Westchester, the Bronx or Yale. After her parents divorced, Rebecca was bounced between white, Jewish, upper middle class suburbs, and her mother's "artisan" class lifestyle. When they married, Mel's family turned its back on him and the first grandchild, Rebecca. Postethnicity and Ethnic Performance in Rebecca Walkers Black White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self Agnese Marino, LeRoy Locke Published 2010. Read full overviewĪlice Walker and Mel Leventhal, like many blacks from the South and whites from the North were brought together by the Civil Rights Movement. When they married, Mel's family turned its back on him and the first grandchild, Rebecca. ![]() Alice Walker and Mel Leventhal, like many blacks from the South and whites from the North were brought together by the Civil Rights Movement. written literary debut, Rebecca Walker grapples with the concept of self. ![]()
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