Real American : a memoir
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Published
New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2017.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
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Oliver La Farge - Adult
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Published
New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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"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.
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Autobiographies.
Lythcott-Haims, Julie.
New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
Palo Alto (Calif.) -- Biography.
Race -- Social aspects -- United States.
Racially mixed people -- Race identity -- United States.
Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography.
Racially mixed people -- United States -- Social conditions.
Reston (Va.) -- Biography.
Stanford (Calif.) -- Biography.
United States -- Race relations.
Lythcott-Haims, Julie.
New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
Palo Alto (Calif.) -- Biography.
Race -- Social aspects -- United States.
Racially mixed people -- Race identity -- United States.
Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography.
Racially mixed people -- United States -- Social conditions.
Reston (Va.) -- Biography.
Stanford (Calif.) -- Biography.
United States -- Race relations.
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