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Rebecca Walker chronicles her early life born to a Jewish father and African‑American mother during the 1960s civil rights movement. Growing up in a family split by divorce, she moves between Mississippi, Brooklyn, San Francisco, the Bronx, and suburban New York, each setting demanding a new self‑conception—whether as white, black, Puerto Rican, Jewish, party girl, fighter, or lover. In the absence of a stable family environment, Walker turns to books, sex, drugs, and complex relationships to grapple with her multicultural heritage and a sense of belonging. The memoir offers an intimate look at how a child of an interracial union navigates identity and home in a society marked by racial and cultural divisions.
First publish date: 2000
Genre: Memoir/Personal Memoir
Authors: Rebecca Walker
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