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mingerific 's review for:
Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir
by Rebecca Carroll
Based 9n the blurb I was expecting this to be more about the authors development. We get some of that, but mostly this just reads like a frazzled rebuttal that she's not confident enough to direct to her parents and bio mom directly.
She was clearly manipulated and her identity neglected, but as a memoir from a thoughtful writer I expected to see more cohesion and substance in the story, not just "most of the people around me made me feel bad in ways I couldn't articulate but finally I made some Black friends who I love but also won't listen to when they try to help me see how poorly I'm being treated and changes I should make then I married a white man and have a Black son the end"
It was an interesting read, but I have to hide it's been done better by someone else
She was clearly manipulated and her identity neglected, but as a memoir from a thoughtful writer I expected to see more cohesion and substance in the story, not just "most of the people around me made me feel bad in ways I couldn't articulate but finally I made some Black friends who I love but also won't listen to when they try to help me see how poorly I'm being treated and changes I should make then I married a white man and have a Black son the end"
It was an interesting read, but I have to hide it's been done better by someone else