When you read a book what is the most important criteria you look for? For me it is the ability to place yourself within the text. I found myself doing this constantly with Black, White, and Jewish, a touching non-fictional account of a young girl. The text, written by Rebecca Walker, is about what it was like for her growing up being of mixed races and backgrounds. Not only was Walker black, white, and Jewish, but she was also from New York, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. When I read this book I felt like I was right there with Rebecca in the Bronx, hanging out with the neighborhood kids, or dancing to Bob Marley with her mother in their small colorful apartment. Walker describes the settings and people in her life with such detail that her readers can grow with her and follow her to these places.

Rebecca Walker’s mother is a famous African American author and her father a white, Jewish lawyer, who are working together during the Civil Rights movement when they fall in love and marry. Rebecca was born shortly after, a product of her parents’ dreams for a more unified country, a movement child. As a movement child she sy

All in all, "Black, White, and, Jewish" is a great book. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who has ever experienced prejudice or just the feeling of being different. I also think it would be a good book to read for anyone who has ever treated someone differently just because of their appearance. "Black, White, and Jewish" shows that on the inside we are all the same.

While living with her father in the Bronx in New York, Rebecca lives a double life. At home, she is her middle class, white, Jewish self, helping with her siblings and doing her homework while listening to pop music like REO Speed Wagon. Rebecca attends a nice school, has nice things and lives in a loving, nurturing environment. Its completely the opposite of her friends lives and the stuff she encounters when she leaves her house to go to the poorer, minority populated areas of her city. Once Rebecca is in the urban areas everything about her also changes. In the Bronx she is a girl of color and she has the attitude to match. She smokes Newports, tries drugs, hangs out with troubled older kids, and she even dates older men. Here, Rebecca is exposed to crime, sex and poverty, things she is sheltered

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