Rebecca Anne Carroll (born 1969)"Rebecca Carroll." ''

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and the editor of collections including ''Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America'' and ''Saving the Race: Conversations on Du Bois from a Collective Memoir of Souls''. She is a producer of the podcast on

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and was the founding editor at Africana.com. On February 2, 2021, Carroll published a memoir, ''Surviving the White Gaze''. The book recounts Carroll’s experience growing up as the only Black person and adoptive daughter of loving, white artist parents in their New Hampshire town. She felt some growing isolation as time went on but her life changed substantially when she met her white birth mother, who undermined Carroll’s confidence as well as her identity as a Black person. The book traces the evolving tensions between her desire for acceptance from her mother, her love for her adoptive parents, and her own identity. Prior to publication,

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acquired the rights, with Carroll planned to adapt her memoir as a limited series produced by

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and Pamela Koffler at

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References

External links

Excerpt
from ''Surviving the White Gaze'' at

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