Surviving the White Gaze Format:Hardcover NATIONAL BESTSELLER • What’s your

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • What’s your journey of becoming

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its rite in storytelling and in creating the safety found only within its intimacy

who her family can never know about

Surviving the White Gaze Format:Hardcover NATIONAL BESTSELLER • What’s yourA 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 childhood was loving and idyllicand yet she couldnt articulate