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Author Lythcott-Haims, Julie, author.

Title Real American : a memoir / Julie Lythcott-Haims.

Publication Info. New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2017.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.8009 LYTHCOTT-HAIMS    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B LYTHCOTT-HAIMS, JULIE    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography  B LYTHCOTT-HAIMS    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography  B-LYTHCOTT-HAIMS LYT    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.8 LYT    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B LYTHCOTT-HAIMS, J.    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B LYTHCOTT-HAIMS JULIE L    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Biographies  BIOG LYTHCOTT-HAIMS, JULIE    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 272 pages ; 22 cm
Contents It begins like this -- An American childhood -- Becoming the other -- Desperate to belong -- Self-loathing -- Emerging -- Declaring -- Black lives matter -- Onward.
Summary "Bringing a poetic sensibility to her prose to stunning effect, Lythcott-Haims briskly and stirringly evokes her personal battle with the low self-esteem that American racism routinely inflicts on people of color. The only child of a marriage between an African American father and a white British mother, she shows indelibly how so-called microaggressions, in addition to blunt-force insults, can puncture a person's inner life with a thousand sharp cuts. Real American expresses also, through Lythcott-Haims's path to self-acceptance, the healing power of community in overcoming the hurtful isolation of being incessantly considered "the other." -- From Book jacket.
Subject Lythcott-Haims, Julie.
Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography.
Racially mixed people -- Race identity -- United States.
Racially mixed people -- United States -- Social conditions.
Race -- Social aspects -- United States.
United States -- Race relations.
New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
Reston (Va.) -- Biography.
Palo Alto (Calif.) -- Biography.
Stanford (Calif.) -- Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
ISBN 9781250137746 (hardcover)
1250137748 (hardcover)
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