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"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."--Page 4 of cover
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Real American, Julie Lythcott-Haims
- Language
- Released
- 2018
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Real American
- Subtitle
- A Memoir
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Julie Lythcott-Haims
- Publisher
- Macmillan USA
- Released
- 2018
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 1250296730
- ISBN13
- 9781250296733
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, True Stories, Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Race, Racism, Women's Biographies, Social Justice, African American Literature
- Rating
- 4.4 out of 5
- 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 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."--Page 4 of cover