Bibliograph

Real American, a memoir, Julie Lythcott-Haims

Type

Label

Real American, a memoir, Julie Lythcott-Haims

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Real American

Oclc number

986788488

Responsibility statement

Julie Lythcott-Haims

Sub title

a memoir

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

Table Of Contents

It begins like this -- An American childhood -- Becoming the other -- Desperate to belong -- Self-loathing -- Emerging -- Declaring -- Black lives matter -- Onward

Target audience

general

Classification