Black, White, and Jewish

Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self

Author	Rebecca Walker
Language	English
Publisher	Riverhead Books
Publication date	2001
Publication place	United States
ISBN	9781573229074
OCLC	48859956

Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self (2002) is an autobiography by American feminist writer Rebecca Walker.

About

Born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1969, and living there as a child, Rebecca Walker is the daughter of Alice Walker, a Black Protestant womanist writer, and Melvyn R. Leventhal, a white Jewish civil rights lawyer. Her parents became active in the later years of the Civil Rights Movement.

Walker explores her experience of living with two parents each with very active careers, which she believes led to their separation when she was young. She explores encountering racism in the South and the North, and the difficulties of being mixed-race in a society with rigid formal cultural barriers. The South certainly had a long history before the 20th century of mixed-race children born to Black mothers and white fathers. ^[1]

Walker also discusses how her sexuality and religion set her apart: she has identified as a bisexual Black Jewish woman. ^{[1] [2]}

See also

• African American Jews

References

1. Walker, Rebecca (2001). "Nonfiction Book Review: Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self" . Publishers Weekly . Riverhead Books. ISBN   978-1-57322-169-6 . Retrieved October 1, 2022.
2. "Black, White, and Jewish". The New York Times . Retrieved 2022-10-01.

External links

• Author and Producer Rebecca Walker Hosted by Muhlenberg, Muhlenberg College
• Black, White, and Jewish on Rebecca Walker's website