I'm Down - Softcover

Wolff, Mishna

 
9780312379094: I'm Down
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0312379099 ISBN 13: 9780312379094
Verlag: Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S., 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Mishna Wolff grew up in a poor black neighborhood with her single father, a white man who truly believed he was black. "He strutted around with a short perm, a Cosby-esqe sweater, gold chains and a Kangol—telling jokes like Redd Fox, and giving advice like Jesse Jackson. You couldn't tell my father he was white. Believe me, I tried," writes Wolff. And so from early childhood on, her father began his crusade to make his white daughter down.

Unfortunately, Mishna didn't quite fit in with the neighborhood kids: she couldn't dance, she couldn't sing, she couldn't double Dutch and she was the worst player on her all-black basketball team. She was shy, uncool, and painfully white. And yet when she was suddenly sent to a rich white school, she found she was too "black" to fit in with her white classmates.

I'm Down is a hip, hysterical and at the same time beautiful memoir that will have you howling with laughter, recommending it to friends and questioning what it means to be black and white in America.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mishna Wolff was one of the 2009 Sundance Screenwriting Lab fellows. She is a humorist and former model, who grew up in Seattle. She lives and writes in New York City.

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Verlag
Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0312379099
ISBN 13 
9780312379094
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
273
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