Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir

by Rebecca Carroll

Book Overview

An Esquire Best Book of 2021

A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful struggle to overcome a completely white childhood in order to forge her identity as a black woman in America.

Rebecca Carroll grew up the only black person in her rural New Hampshire town. Adopted at birth by artistic parents who believed in peace, love, and zero population growth, her early...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1982116250
• ISBN13: 9781982116255
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.4"