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1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 30 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Mishna Wolff. |
| Summary |
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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Wolff, Mishna -- Childhood and youth.
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Wolff, Mishna -- Family.
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African American neighborhoods -- Washington (State)
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Comedians -- United States -- Biography.
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Models (Persons) -- United States -- Biography.
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Wolff, Mishna.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781400192786 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1400192781 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT10755416 |
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