In it she describes her coming of age in between the divorced worlds of her black mother and her. In this book, Rebecca Leventhal Walker attempts to define herself as a soul instead of a symbol-and offers a new look at the challenge of personal identity, in a story at once strikingly unique and truly universal. 'Black, White and Jewish' is Rebecca Walkers first book and, audaciously, it is her autobiography. Black, White, and Jewish is the story of a childs unique struggle for identity and home when nothing in her world told her who she was or where she belonged. Confused, and mostly alone, she turned to sex, drugs, books, and a cast of dangerous and thrilling characters. 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. Walker, Rebecca, 1969 November 17-, Walker. 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. Published 2001 Binding Hardcover ISBN 10 1573221694 Quantity Available 1 Seller.
In this coming-of-age nonfiction book, Walkerthe daughter of Alice Walker, the famed African-American novelist who wrote 1982’s The Color Purple, and Mel Leventhal, a Jewish manrecounts her highly confusing and tumultuous transition from. Black White and Jewish by Walker, Rebecca Condition Used - Near Fine Jacket Condition Fine Edition First Edition, First Printing. The Civil Rights movement brought author Alice Walker and lawyer Mel Leventhal together, and in 1969 their daughter, Rebecca, was born. Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self is a 2002 memoir by Rebecca Walker.
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