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

It was tough to read about how she "realized" she was black....and I think there are a lot of children who grew up in similar circumstances. The unabashedly way her parents ultimately treated her as a pet or a project....and how I feel they thought she should be grateful that they chose her to raise instead of owning and accepting that she may have felt different than their intent....yall didn't do her a favor. What yall really did was a huge disservice to who she was as a black child in America AND who she would become as a black woman in America. This book made so many emotions erupt out of me.