Real American
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Julie Lythcott-Haims
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2017
Place of publication: New York, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781250137746
Subjects: Race relations; Race identity; Racially mixed people; Race; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations; Social conditions; Biography
Description: Bringing a poetic sensibility to her prose to stunning effect, Lythcott-Haims briskly and stirringly evokes her personal battle with the low self-esteem that American racism routinely inflicts on people of color. The only child of a marriage between an African-American father and a white British mother, she shows indelibly how so-called "micro" aggressions in addition to blunt force insults can puncture a person's inner life with a thousand sharp cuts. Real American expresses also, through Lythcott-Haims's path to self-acceptance, the healing power of community in overcoming the hurtful isolation of being incessantly considered "the other.".
Table of contents: title: It begins like this; title: An American childhood; title: Becoming the other; title: Desperate to belong; title: Self-loathing; title: Emerging; title: Declaring; title: Black lives matter; title: Onward.