A review by mollybwell
Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir by Rebecca Carroll

4.0

I had to read this memoir. The experience of living in rural New Hampshire as a bi-racial child adopted into a white family in the Civil Rights era is fascinating and wildly presumptuous of Carroll's parents. Without any perspective of the enormity of the social adjustment required of this child and the ignorance of the responsibility they had taken on as parents, it is a wonder of self-reflection and good writing. Rebecca Carroll has written a personal history and a deeper truth describing the white priviledge the pervades our society in the United States.