Rebecca Walker
Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self.
Riverhead Books, 2001. Author-signed first printing. 1573221694 320 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.75", is bound in quarter black cloth and black paper-covered boards, with stamped red lettering and author's initials stamped in red on front cover. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. Author's signature and drawing of flower appear on title page.
"When Mel Leventhal married Alice Walker during the civil rights movement in the late 1960s, his mother declared him dead and did not reconcile until after the birth of her first grandchild. After Mel and Alice divorced, their daughter, Rebecca, alternated homes every two years, spending time in Mississippi, Brooklyn, San Francisco's Haight Ashbury, Washington, D.C., the Bronx, and suburban Westchester. With each new place came a new identity and desperate attempts to fit in: as white or black, as Puerto Rican or Jewish, as a party girl, a fighter, or a lover. Confused, and mostly alone, she turned to sex, drugs, books, and a cast of dangerous and thrilling characters. "Black, White, and Jewish" is the story of a child's unique struggle for identity and home when nothing in her world told her who she was or where she belongs."