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Rebecca Walker: "I chose the people who chose me."

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The daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning author
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often difficult for the children
of a marriage between Jew and
non-Jew to cope. They often are
labeled "half-Jews" of a "mixed
marriage," and may be victims of dis-
crimination on both sides.
Then there's Rebecca Walker. The
product of a religious and racial inter-
marriage between parents who are now
divorced, she tells of her difficulties in
growing up as a biracial, bireligious
and bicultural child in her first book,
the just-published Black, White c

Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self
(Riverhead Books; $23.95).
The book's main attributes are hon-
esty and frankness: There is plenty
about sex, drug use, abortion and
other emotional episodes in a life that
Walker describes so far as "challenging
and often painful."
Rebecca, now 31, is the daughter of
Pulitzer Prize-winning black writer
Alice Walker (The Color Purple) and

Jewish attorney Mel Levanthal. They
met during the civil rights movement
of the late 1960s when Leventhal went
to Mississippi to work on school
desegregation cases for the NAACP
Defense Fund.
When the pair married, Levanthal's
mother declared her son dead, sat
shiva for him and didn't reconcile with
the couple until after Rebecca's birth.
Following her parents' divorce,
Rebecca's life became a constantly
changing odyssey. She alternated every
two years between her parents' homes
— moving from Brooklyn, the Bronx
and suburban Westchester County,
N.Y., to San Francisco, Washington,
D.C., and Mississippi.
With each new place came a new
identity and desperate attempts to fit in
to her surroundings — including a
boyfriend in every location. Confused
and often alone, she turned to drugs and
sex, undergoing an abortion at age 14.
"The hardest part of my life was
switching back and forth and living in all
of these places," says Walker, who writes