LEADER 00000cam  22006498i 4500 
001    1048946491 
003    OCoLC|blk 
005    20190806084115.0 
008    181125s2019    nyuaf         000 0aeng c 
010    2018055440 
019    1101655244 
020    9781250146755|q(hardcover) :|c$27.99 
020    1250146755|q(hardcover) 
035    (OCoLC)1048946491|z(OCoLC)1101655244 
040    LBSOR/DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dOCLCO|dOCLCF|dGK8|dTOH|dZVR
       |dOCLCO|dKSA|dIK2|dJTH|dIH9|dOCL|dORL 
042    pcc 
043    n-us-pa|an-us--- 
049    ORLL 
082 00 305.48/896073|223 
092    B|bVALENTINE 
100 1  Valentine, Sarah,|d1977-|eauthor. 
245 10 When I was white :|ba memoir /|cSarah Valentine. 
250    First edition. 
263    1908 
264  1 New York :|bSt. Martin's Press,|c2019. 
300    292 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates :|billustrations 
       (some color) ;|c22 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
520    "The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about 
       Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white girl in the suburbs
       of Pittsburgh, and her discovery that her father was a 
       black man. At the age of 27, Sarah Valentine discovered 
       that she was not, in fact, the white girl she had always 
       believed herself to be. She learned the truth of her 
       paternity: that her father was a black man. And she 
       learned the truth about her own identity: mixed race. And 
       so Sarah began the difficult and absorbing journey of 
       changing her identity from white to black. In this memoir,
       Sarah details the story of the discovery of her identity, 
       how she overcame depression to come to terms with this 
       identity, and, perhaps most importantly, asks: why? Her 
       entire family and community had conspired to maintain her 
       white identity. The supreme discomfort her white family 
       and community felt about addressing issues of race--her 
       race--is a microcosm of race relationships in America. A 
       black woman who lived her formative years identifying as 
       white, Sarah's story is a kind of Rachel Dolezal in 
       reverse, though her 'passing' was less intentional than 
       conspiracy. This memoir is an examination of the cost of 
       being black in America, and how one woman threw off the 
       racial identity she'd grown up with, in order to embrace a
       new one"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Valentine, Sarah,|d1977-|xChildhood and youth. 
600 10 Valentine, Sarah,|d1977-|xFamily. 
650  0 Racially mixed people|zPennsylvania|zPittsburgh
       |vBiography. 
650  0 African American women|zPennsylvania|zPittsburgh
       |vBiography. 
650  0 Whites|zPennsylvania|zPittsburgh|vBiography. 
650  0 Passing (Identity)|zPennsylvania|zPittsburgh. 
650  0 African Americans|xRace identity|zPennsylvania
       |zPittsburgh. 
650  0 Whites|xRace identity|zPennsylvania|zPittsburgh. 
650  0 ocls african american bio 
651  0 Pittsburgh (Pa.)|vBiography. 
651  0 Pittsburgh (Pa.)|xRace relations. 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft 
938    Brodart|bBROD|n122944534 
938    YBP Library Services|bYANK|n15645064 
994    C0|bORL