Surviving the White Gaze: Rebecca Carroll with Zoe Kazan
By Her Agenda StaffMar. 1 2021, Published 7:00 p.m. ET
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Rebecca Carroll grew up the only Black person in her rural New Hampshire town. Adopted at birth by artistic parents who believed in peace, love, and zero population growth, her early childhood was loving and idyllic—and yet she felt a deepening sense of isolation as she grew older. Everything changed when she met her birth mother, a young white woman, who consistently undermined Carroll's sense of her Blackness and self-esteem. Carroll's childhood became harrowing, and her memoir explores the tension between the aching desire for her birth mother's acceptance, the loyalty she feels toward her adoptive parents, and the search for her racial identity.
Joined by actor Zoe Kazan, Carroll discusses her intensely personal examination of racism and racial identity in America today.
