~ Trade Paperback

~ New Release - 2021

Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir

A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll, Surviving the White Gaze recounts her painful struggle to overcome a completely white childhood in order to forge her identity as a black woman in America.

Intimate and illuminating, Surviving the White Gaze is a timely examination of racism and racial identity in America today, and an extraordinarily moving portrait of resilience.

“In nuanced and richly textured scenes, Carroll reminds us how identity, particularly racial identity, is forged in a thousand different moment.  Carroll writes with the urgency and persuasiveness of someone whose life is hanging in the balance, and the result is raw and affecting.” -- The New York Times Book Review