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St. Martin's Griffin
June 2010
On Sale: June 8, 2010
288 pages
ISBN: 0312379099
EAN: 9780312379094
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Mishna Wolff grew up in a poor black neighborhood with her single father, a white man who truly believed he was black. βHe strutted around with a short perm, a Cosby-esqe sweater, gold chains and a Kangolβtelling jokes like Redd Fox, and giving advice like Jesse Jackson. You couldnβt tell my father he was white. Believe me, I tried,β writes Wolff. And so from early childhood on, her father began his crusade to make his white daughter down. Unfortunately, Mishna didnβt quite fit in with the neighborhood kids: she couldnβt dance, she couldnβt sing, she couldnβt 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 βblackβ to fit in with her white classmates. Iβm 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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