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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 792.7028092
Fabric Type: 9780312378554
Legal Disclaimer: 0312378556
Maximum Color Depth: St. Martin's Press
Metal Type: St. Martin's Press
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 288
Total External Bays Free: May 26, 2009
Total Firewire Ports: St. Martin's Press
Total Parallel Ports: May 26, 2009
St. Martin's Press
Features:- ISBN13: 9780312378554
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
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. You couldn’t tell my father he was white. Believe me, I tried,” writes Wolff. And so from early childhood on, her father began his crusade to make his white daughter Down. Unfortunately, Mishna didn’t quite fit in with the neighborhood kids: 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. She was shy, uncool and painfully white. And yet when she was suddenly sent to a rich white school, she found she was too “black” to fit in with her white classmates. I’m Down is a hip, hysterical and at the same time beautiful memoir that will have you howling with laughter, recommending it to friends and questioning what it means to be black and white in America.
Average Rating: 
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I don't think it's just my imagination: the book promises funny, kooky adventures. That's the impression I get, at least, from the cover, which is emblazoned with a photo of a white girl with a novelty-sized afro.
But the book turned out to be far more creepy than funny.
WHAT I THOUGHT IT WAS: This girl, owing to an unfortunate set of circumstances, finds herself being raised in an all-black neighborhood. We laugh and cry with her as she makes desperate attempts to fit ... Read More
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Mishna Wolfe's memoir is great. It was humorous, deep, and light hearted. I really enjoyed reading her stories about growing up and at the end of the book I found myself wanting more. She told these stories so beautifully and witty. Highly recommend as someone who frequently reads memoirs.
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Spotted the cover (how could it be missed!?!) and right to the shopping cart this one went! Got home, opened the book, and `straight up' took to the humor. What other way does one parlay "she was shy, uncool, and painfully white" up against "too black to fit in with her white classmates"? The best way to invest in this very painful observation is to stroke it with humor, which Mishna does well.
A little piece along however, I did sour on the uneven (at times) tone in the little ones' voices. ... Read More
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I got turned onto this book by a friend because we both grew up in the 80's in the same gifted program the author describes in the book. While I did enjoy the opportunity to reminisce about my teachers and shopping at Chubby & Tubby, this book offered so much more. Her writing has a wonderful quality about it, painting a vivid picture and offering witty insights into her thoughts. Although the memoir is billed as funny, it can also be poignant, moving, depressing, and (thankfully) uplifting. Perhaps I ... Read More
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I liked this book. It had me from page one. We are brainwashed to think that fathers can't nurture as well as mothers can, but I thought Mishna's father-daughter interactions were fascinating. When finished I wanted to read part two - more high school and college and what is her relationship with her father now? One reviewer called the book "Daddy worship." Mishna was not an equal-opportunity daughter - yes, the book is lopsidedly about her relationship with her father, but would the book have ... Read More
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