Title: Real American
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.".
Subjects: Race relations, Race identity, Racially mixed people, Race, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations, Social conditions, Biography, United states, race relations, New york (n.y.), biography, Virginia, biography, California, biography, New York Times reviewed, Social aspects, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Cultural Heritage, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Discrimination & Race Relations
Places: United States, New York (N.Y.), Reston (Va.), Stanford (Calif.), Palo Alto (Calif.)
People: Julie Lythcott-Haims