Bibliograph

I'm down, a memoir, Mishna Wolff

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I'm down, a memoir, Mishna Wolff

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

I'm down

Oclc number

262885311

Responsibility statement

Mishna Wolff

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

Mishna Wolff grew up in a poor black neighborhood with her single father, a white man who truly believed he was black. He strutted around with a short perm, a Cosby-esqe sweater, gold chains and a Kangol--telling jokes like Redd Fox and giving advice like Jesse Jackson. He walked like a black man, he talked like a black man and he played sports like a black man. You couldn't tell her father he was white. "Believe me, I tried, 3 times," writes Wolff. And so from early childhood on, her father began his crusade to make his white daughter down with all-things-black. But Mishna didn't fit in with the other kids in her neighborhood: she couldn't dance, she couldn't sing, she couldn't double dutch and she was the worst player on her all-black basketball team. Yet when she was finally sent to a rich all-white school, she was too black to fit in with her white classmates, and she was more uncool than ever

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I am down

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