I'm Down: A Memoir
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Mishna Wolff grew up in a poor black neighborhood with her single father, a white man who truly believed he was black. "He strutted around with a short perm, a Cosby-esque sweater, gold chains and a Kangol-telling jokes like Redd Fox, and giving advice like Jesse Jackson. You couldn't tell my father he was white. Believe me, I tried," writes Wolff. And so from early childhood on, her father began his crusade to make his white daughter down. Unfortunately, Mishna didn't quite fit in with the neighborhood kids: she couldn't dance, she couldn't sing, she couldn't 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 "black" to fit in with her white classmates. I'm 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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Wolff, M. (2009). I'm Down: A Memoir. Unabridged. [United States], Tantor Media, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Wolff, Mishna. 2009. I'm Down: A Memoir. [United States], Tantor Media, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Wolff, Mishna, I'm Down: A Memoir. [United States], Tantor Media, Inc, 2009.
MLA Citation (style guide)Wolff, Mishna. I'm Down: A Memoir. Unabridged. [United States], Tantor Media, Inc, 2009.
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