Real American
a memoir
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Author
Publication
2017 - Henry Holt and Company, New York, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
68,000 words, Guess
Page Count
272 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL26884455M
- ISBN-101250137748
- ISBN-139781250137746
- Library of Congress Control Number2017009272
- OCLC Control Number986788488
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- Better World Books9781250137746
Classifications
- DDC305.800973
- LCCE184.A1 L967 2017
- LCCE184.A1L967 2017
Description
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 "micro" aggressions 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.".
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