I'm DownI'm Down
a Memoir
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Downloadable Audiobook, 2009
Current format, Downloadable Audiobook, 2009, Unabridged, Available.Downloadable Audiobook, 2009
Current format, Downloadable Audiobook, 2009, Unabridged, Available. Offered in 0 more formatsMishna 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-esque 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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- [United States]: Tantor Audio, 2009., Made available through hoopla
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