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Cargando... When I was white : a memoir (edición 2019)por Sarah Valentine
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is such an emotional memoir...as most memoirs are, of course. But Sarah is so completely overcome, understandably, with what her life has meant and it is compelling to read how exhausting, depressing and really life altering everything becomes when she finally has a partial truth---that she is a mixed race child and not what her family has insisted since her birth. Looking around, the world is more and more full of mixed people, especially if you are not isolated in a place where everyone seems to "look" the same---as Sarah experienced as she was growing up--and really---as enormous numbers of people outside of large cities--experience---where "most" people are "mostly" the same---in appearance. Skin deep also doesn't work for your "color" because we all have a history and culture behind whatever that outside shows. Sarah's book is a really eye opening book for anyone to read because it exposes how painfully we often treat each other, and usually with no idea that we are doing so. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white girl in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and her discovery that her father was a black man. At the age of 27, Sarah Valentine discovered that she was not, in fact, the white girl she had always believed herself to be. She learned the truth of her paternity: that her father was a black man. And she learned the truth about her own identity: mixed race. And so Sarah began the difficult and absorbing journey of changing her identity from white to black. In this memoir, Sarah details the story of the discovery of her identity, how she overcame depression to come to terms with this identity, and, perhaps most importantly, asks: why? Her entire family and community had conspired to maintain her white identity. The supreme discomfort her white family and community felt about addressing issues of race--her race--is a microcosm of race relationships in America. A black woman who lived her formative years identifying as white, Sarah's story is a kind of Rachel Dolezal in reverse, though her 'passing' was less intentional than conspiracy. This memoir is an examination of the cost of being black in America, and how one woman threw off the racial identity she'd grown up with, in order to embrace a new one"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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