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Black, White, and Jewish: Trying to Fit When you read a book what is the most important criteria you look for? For me it is the ability to place yourself within the text. I found myself doing this constantly with Black, White, and Jewish, a touching non-fictional account of a young girl. The text, written by Rebecca Walker, is about what it was like for her growing up being of mixed races and backgrounds. Not only was Walker black, white, and Jewish, but she was also from New York, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. When I read this book I felt like I was right there with Rebecca in the Bronx, hanging out with the neighborhood kids, or dancing to Bob Marley with her mother in their small colorful apartment. Walker describes the settings and people in her life with such detail that her readers can grow with her and follow her to these places. Rebecca Walker’s mother is a famous African American author and her father a white, Jewish lawyer, who are working together during the Civil Rights movement when they fall in love and marry. Rebecca was born shortly after, a product of her parents’ dreams for a more unified country, a movement child. As a movement child she sy