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Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir by Rebecca Carroll
5.0
I think this book is a lot of things:
1. It is deeply sad, the description of her early years often left me speechless and hurting for her younger self.
2. It is clearly a creative book (I’ve seen reviews of it saying that she fills in the gaps and they gave it less stars bc of that, I think that’s dumb all memoirs do that)
3. It is beautifully written and very accessible meaning that I think it talks about feminist theory applicable to everyday life in a way that makes the concepts so easily understood that I think it would be a great place to start a feminist or antiracist journey.
4. I think it also is deeply important as cross racial and cross cultural adoptions are so common now, but I’m not sure as a country or as a system we have ever held up a lens to the possibility that maybe this isn’t what is the absolute best for these children, or at least not the way we are doing it even though black cross racial adoptees have been speaking out about this far longer than we have been listening.
Overall just a good well written amazing memoire.
1. It is deeply sad, the description of her early years often left me speechless and hurting for her younger self.
2. It is clearly a creative book (I’ve seen reviews of it saying that she fills in the gaps and they gave it less stars bc of that, I think that’s dumb all memoirs do that)
3. It is beautifully written and very accessible meaning that I think it talks about feminist theory applicable to everyday life in a way that makes the concepts so easily understood that I think it would be a great place to start a feminist or antiracist journey.
4. I think it also is deeply important as cross racial and cross cultural adoptions are so common now, but I’m not sure as a country or as a system we have ever held up a lens to the possibility that maybe this isn’t what is the absolute best for these children, or at least not the way we are doing it even though black cross racial adoptees have been speaking out about this far longer than we have been listening.
Overall just a good well written amazing memoire.