black white and jewish by rebecca walker

Rebecca decide to discharge the father’s surname and highlight the mother’s oneĪs a sign of privileging blackness and downplaying whiteness. Nevertheless, there seems to be no place for aīiracial, multiethnic daughter in the xenophobic society of the father, and this makes To live up to the societal standards of good mothering and turns to her father asĪ point of reference for her life. Considering her motherĪs the inner scapegoat and the inherent blemish, Rebecca recognizes failure Purged once and for all from the remnants of her culture. Is the matrophobic rejection of the mother’s peculiarities and the desire to become Typical of the matrilineal relationship in Rebecca Walker’ s Black, White and Jewish With the matrilineal heritage or becoming a cultural replica of the Electra complex. Mediations that make her side with the dominant culture instead of identifying Literally traveling between two or more worlds and developing a tolerance forĬontradictions and plurality, the “Mestiza” is involved in self-negotiations and The “Mestiza Daughter” and the “Cultural Electra” trope. Way of waging war on her search for identity, Rebecca maps up her identity through In her mother’ s world, other times going through disruption from the mother as a Shuttling between coasts and cultures makes Walker feel a “movementĬhild” psychologically, physically and politically. Middle class Jewish girl living with her father and her stepmother in the suburbs of

In thisĪutobiography Rebecca Walker is revealed transforming herself from a rebelliousīlack adolescent living with her mother in the bohemia of San Francisco to an upper

With their multiple identities and adopting the role of cultural ambassadors. The cultural ‘Mestizas’ try to strike a balance inīetween their insider and outsider status in the society for then coming to terms This paper is a qualitative analysis of the cultural notion of the “mestiza” daughterĪnd of the way the lines of transborder matrilineage spread through Rebecca

Black white and jewish by rebecca walker