Description:
White comedian Mishna Wolff relates her memorable childhood as the daughter of a man who went to great lengths to pretend he was black. In an effort to identify with African-American culture, Mishna`s father permed his hair, sported thick gold chains, and dated a steady stream of black women, but his daughter had a more difficult time adapting as a minority in her predominantly black school and neighborhood, where her pathetic attempts at dancing and Double-Dutch single her out for ridicule. Just when Mishna begins to gain some recess renown as a master of "capping" (cracking insults) on her schoolmates, her Buddhist mother enrolls her in a school for gifted children, where she faces a new form of discrimination because of the black behavioral traits she worked so hard to develop. Wolff`s memoir is filled with rollicking humor and poignant insight into the tenuous identities we construct from class and race.
- Author:
- Wolff, Mishna
- ISBN:
- 9781400162789
- Format:
- Audio
- Publish Date:
- 07/02/2009
- Publisher:
- Tantor Media Inc
- Language:
- English
Customer Reviews
There are currently no customer reviews for this product.
Be the first to write a review
Overstock.com values your opinion. Please take a moment and share what you like or don't like about a product.
0Sponsored Links
Back to top
























