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#1 As a child growing up in the seventies and early eighties in New York, Wisconsin, and Northern Virginia, I was often the target of curiosity from white children and adults. They wanted to make sense of me, so they asked where I was from.
#2 I am the Wooly-Haired, Medium-Brown-skinned offspring typical when Blacks and whites have sex. I come from people who broke...
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"Bringing a poetic sensibility to her prose to stunning effect, Lythcott-Haims briskly and stirringly evokes her personal battle with the low self-esteem that American racism routinely inflicts on people of color. The only child of a marriage between an African American father and a white British mother, she shows indelibly how so-called microaggressions, in addition to blunt-force insults, can puncture a person's inner life with a thousand sharp...
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"Having tackled a far-reaching parenting crisis with her New York Times bestselling How to Raise an Adult, Lythcott-Haims is back with an equally powerful and persuasive book for the adult children of those hovering parents-and for everyone who struggles to be a grown-up in these challenging times"--
What does it mean to be an adult? In the twentieth century psychologists came up with five markers of adulthood: finish your education, get a job, leave...
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