Real American : a memoir / Julie Lythcott-Haims.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lythcott-Haims, Julie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lythcott-Haims, Julie.

Multiracial people--United States--Biography.

Multiracial people.

Race--Social aspects.

Race.

Social conditions.

United States.

Multiracial people--Race identity--United States.

Multiracial people--Race identity.

Multiracial people--United States--Social conditions.

Race--Social aspects--United States.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

New York (N.Y.)--Biography.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

Reston (Va.)--Biography.

Reston (Va.).

Palo Alto (Calif.)--Biography.

Palo Alto (Calif.).

Stanford (Calif.)--Biography.

Stanford (Calif.).

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

272 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2017.

Summary:

"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 microaggressions, 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." -- From Book jacket.

Contents:

It begins like this

An American childhood

Becoming the other

Desperate to belong

Self-loathing

Emerging

Declaring

Black lives matter

Onward.

ISBN:

9781250137746

1250137748

OCLC:

986788488