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Title Real American : a memoir / Julie Lythcott-Haims.
Author Lythcott-Haims, Julie, author.
Publication Info. New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2017.
©2017
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Location Call No. Status
 Alafaya  B LYTHCOTT-HAIMS    Check Shelves
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  B LYTHCOTT-HAIMS    Check Shelves
 South Creek  B LYTHCOTT-HAIMS    Check Shelves
Edition First edition.
Description 272 pages ; 22 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Contents It begins like this -- An American childhood -- Becoming the other -- Desperate to belong -- Self-loathing -- Emerging -- Declaring -- Black lives matter -- Onward.
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.
Subject Lythcott-Haims, Julie.
Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography.
Racially mixed people -- Race identity -- United States -- Biography.
Racially mixed people -- United States -- Social conditions -- Biography.
Race -- Social aspects -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Race relations -- Biography.
New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
Reston (Va.) -- Biography.
Palo Alto (Calif.) -- Biography.
Stanford (Calif.) -- Biography.
Genre Autobiographies.
ISBN 9781250137746 (hardcover) : $27.00
1250137748 (hardcover)
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