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Black and Blintzes: Growing Up Not Quite Jewish On The Lower East Side

Gina Greenlee

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Description:In the tradition of race-straddling memoirs such as James McBride’s "The Color of Water" and Barack Obama’s "Dreams from My Father," Gina Greenlee’s "Black and Blintzes" is the story of a child’s struggle to negotiate lines of race, culture and class when her African-American family relocates from Vladeck City Housing Projects on Manhattan’s Lower East Side to a predominantly white, Jewish community along the East River in 1970. Torn from a beloved private school and tossed into the murky depths of public education, bullied for not being “black enough” and walking the thin line of perpetual outsider in a new community, Black and Blintzes shapes a coming of age mosaic about crafting identity within and outside the boundaries of tribe.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Black and Blintzes: Growing Up Not Quite Jewish On The Lower East Side. To get started finding Black and Blintzes: Growing Up Not Quite Jewish On The Lower East Side, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 85

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: 2012

ISBN: 0981717713

Description: In the tradition of race-straddling memoirs such as James McBride’s "The Color of Water" and Barack Obama’s "Dreams from My Father," Gina Greenlee’s "Black and Blintzes" is the story of a child’s struggle to negotiate lines of race, culture and class when her African-American family relocates from Vladeck City Housing Projects on Manhattan’s Lower East Side to a predominantly white, Jewish community along the East River in 1970. Torn from a beloved private school and tossed into the murky depths of public education, bullied for not being “black enough” and walking the thin line of perpetual outsider in a new community, Black and Blintzes shapes a coming of age mosaic about crafting identity within and outside the boundaries of tribe.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Black and Blintzes: Growing Up Not Quite Jewish On The Lower East Side. To get started finding Black and Blintzes: Growing Up Not Quite Jewish On The Lower East Side, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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