Zook The Girl in the Yellow Poncho

A Memoir
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2447-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

The Girl in the Yellow Poncho is journalist and scholar Kristal Brent Zook’s coming-of-age tale about what it means to be biracial in America where she grapples with in-betweenness, family trauma, and the profound power of atonement and faith to heal a broken family.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zook, Kristal Brent

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
1. Kansas Avenue 1
2. Uncle Mervin 7
3. Noches 13
4. Laurel Canyon 17
5. Dra 23
6. Hollywood Boulevard 27
7. Rockin’ Out 33
8. College Bound 41
9. Activist 47
10. Light-Skinned 55
11. Taking a Chance 63
12. Dad 69
13. ABD 79
14. Detour 87
15. Writer 95
16. Pain 105
17. Australia 111
18. Hiding 119
19. An Adventure 127
20. Alfonso 133
21. A New Life 141
22. Multiracial 149
23. Forgiving 155
24. Memories 159
25. Vashon Island 163
26. Thanksgiving 171
27. Lisa 177
28. Rekindled 183
29. Rage 189
30. A Birthday 195
31. Mothers 199
32. Transformation 207

Über Autor(innen)

Kristal Brent Zook is Professor of Journalism at Hofstra University and author of Color by Fox: The Fox Network and the Revolution in Black Television, Black Women’s Lives: Stories of Pain and Power, and I See Black People: The Rise and Fall of African American-Owned Television and Radio. Zook’s entertainment, cultural, and social justice journalism has appeared in Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, Life, Entertainment Weekly, the New York Times Book Review, Essence, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. She lives in Miami and New York.