02146cam a2200397 i 4500 321176425 TxAuBib 20170908120000.0 170509s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017009272 9781250137746 27.00 1250137748 27.00 eng rda TxAuBib rda Lythcott-Haims, Julie. Real American [BOOK] : a memoir / Julie Lythcott-Haims. First edition. New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2017. 272 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier It begins like this -- An American childhood -- Becoming the other -- Desperate to belong -- Self-loathing -- Emerging -- Declaring -- Black lives matter -- Onward. "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 cuts. Real American expresses also, through Lythcott-Haims's path to self-acceptance, the healing power of community in overcoming the hurtful isolation of being incessantly considered "the other.". 20171005. Lythcott-Haims, Julie. Multiracial people United States Biography. Multiracial people Race identity United States. Multiracial people United States Social conditions. Race Social aspects United States. Biographies. Palo Alto (Calif) Biography. United States Race relations. Reston (Va) Biography. New York (N.Y) Biography. Standford (Ca) Biography.