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The Civil Rights movement brought author Alice Walker and lawyer Mel Leventhal together, and in 1969 their daughter, Rebecca, was born. 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.
Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self is a 2002 autobiography by the American feminist writer Rebecca Walker.
“[Walker] offers painful childhood memories of straddling two vastly different cultures—black bohemia and Jewish suburbia—to fashion a cautionary tale about the power of race in shaping identity…[a] highly readable debut.”—
In her memoir Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self (2000), Walker explores her early years in Mississippi as the child of parents who were active in the later years of the Civil Rights Movement.
Black, White, and Jewish moves chronological-ly through Walker's life and she writes short chapters in an urgent, first-person present tense. She constantly underscores the idea that she feels like an outsider, even when she appears to fit in; she imagines herself to be too black for whites, including Jews, and too white for blacks.
The daughter of the black writer Alice Walker and a white Jewish lawyer, Mel Leventhal, Rebecca Walker writes that her confusion about being biracial began when her parents divorced when she...
REBECCA WALKER — the daughter of Alice Walker, the author of “The Color Purple,” and Mel Leventhal, a civil rights lawyer — was a nascent feminist when she laid bare the details of her...
