Black White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self

Rebecca Walker

2000

In twelfth grade I am at the height of my power as a young woman. I am experienced. I am loved. I am excelling in my classes. I am president of my school and lead all school meetings in the gym every week. I write essays that are published in the school paper. I help develop programs that will raise awareness of people of color at my school. I…

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Rebecca Walker

b. 1969

Rebecca Walker was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and grew up in New York and San Francisco. A contributing editor to Ms. Magazine and the cofounder of Third Wave Foundation, Walker is a journalist and memoir writer who has explored her interracial background. She was named one of the fifty most influential American leaders under age forty by Time.

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