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her story in an absorbing, firsthand
account as if it taken from a daily diary.
Other emotional traumas included
being beaten by black kids; being
dumped by her white boyfriend after
he was razzed by classmates for dating
her; and having her maternal relatives
use the word "cracker" to describe her.
In the 12th grade, she renounced
her father's name and the Jewish white
part of her life, "privileging my black-
ness and downplaying my whiteness."
She explains that she learned her
paternal grandfather had beaten her
Grandmother, disowned her father
when he was 8 and refused to see her
or any other of his son's children.
"Why should I carry the name of
this man? \X/hy should that clan of
people who have been so resistant to
my birth be allowed to claim the
young woman I have become? I chose
the people who chose me."
The name change came as a shock
to Levanthal and his new wife; Alice
Walker helped in the legal part of it.
Rebecca's father suggests her choice
has something to do with my own
anti-Semitism, with wanting to dis-
tance myself from the Jewish in me,"
says the first-time author, who still
maintains a good relationship with
Leventhal, currently a practicing attor-
ney in New York.
All in all, Walker feels she "turned
out OK," and that her emotional
problems are behind her. The new
author, who says she is bisexual, now
lives with a female companion and the
latter's son in Berkeley, Calif.
A graduate of Yale University, she has
written for several national publica-
tions, hosted television forums and pro-
duced segments for public television.
She is the founder of Third Wave
Foundation, a national, activist, philan-
thropic organization for young women.
She was named by Time magazine as
one of the 50 future leaders of America.
Her advice to parents of biracial
children?
"Talk to [them] about race and
identity, and share [your] values with
them. Kids need to feel they make
sense ideologically, and that they fit
into some scheme."
And her advice to these children?
"Mixed kids must claim their whole
selves and both of their parents,
rather than allowing themselves to be
ripped in half by a culture that push-
es them to identify exclusively with
one race or another.
"Young mixed people should be
proud of their mixed heritage. Their
unique perspective can contribute
greatly to the furthering of race rela-
tions in this country." Li
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as broadly as we ought to in terms of
our responsibilities as citizens."
Edelman's experience in promoting
economic opportunity has taken many
forms. As deputy director at the Robert
F. Kennedy Memorial, Edelman helped
direct young people into work for low-
income communities. As a vice presi-
dent at the University of Massachusetts,
he pressed for a College of Public and
Community Service. As director of the
New York State Division of Youth, he
focused on improving chances for
young people enmeshed in the juvenile
justice system.
To gather the information for his
book, Edelman searched his own files,
the Congressional Record and newspa-
pers. He interviewed people who
drafted the Economic Opportunity
Act (War on Poverty) and women
across the country who have experi-
enced the effects of the most recent
welfare law (Personal Responsibility
and Work Opportunity
Reconciliation Act of 1996).
"I think that if people are active
about these issues, there are some
things we can do now that should not
be very controversial as far as national
policies are concerned," says Edelman,
whose current focus is a national cam-
paign on jobs and income support.
"That involves increasing our
investment in child care, getting bet-
ter health coverage for parents as well
as, children and improving the earned
income tax credit for working people
with low incomes.
"There's a long agenda of things
that we need to do locally, such as
improve public schools, get people
jobs in the regional economy and pro-
vide better job preparation."
Edelman believes that the celebra-
tion of the birthday of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. on Jan. 15 is impor-
tant to giving visibility to the issues he
wants to address.
Edelman met Dr. King, but his wife,
Marian Wright Edelman, knew Dr.
King very well. President of the
Children's Defense Fund, she was the
first black woman admitted to Ole bar in
Mississippi and a leading civil rights
lawyer when she met her husband--to-be.
"I think the celebrating of Dr.
King's birthday is a reminder of the
importance of issues of racial equality
and economic justice," Edelman says.
"Dr. King was working more on the
issues of economic justice at the time
that he died, and I think the celebra-
tion of his birthday is a reminder that
We have a larg e, unfinished agenda on
these issues."Ii]
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