Surviving the White Gaze Format:Hardcover The New Yorker

The New Yorker

The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman

piercing and funny

the harder it is to keep her distance

and happily single woman

Surviving the White Gaze Format:Hardcover The New YorkerA stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful struggle to overcome a completely white childhood in order to forge her identity as a black woman in America. Rebecca Carroll grew up the only black person in her rural New Hampshire town. Adopted at birth by artistic parents who believed in peace, love, and zero population growth, her early childhood was loving and idyllicand yet she couldnt articulate