Rebecca Carroll

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Rebecca Carroll in 2018

Rebecca Anne Caroll (born 1969)[1] is an American writer, editor and radio producer. She is producer of special projects at WNYC and the editor of collections including Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America[2][3] and Saving the Race: Conversations on Du Bois from a Collective Memoir of Souls.[4] She is a producer of the podcast on gentrification in Brooklyn There Goes the Neighborhood (produced with The Nation).[5] Previously she was managing editor at xoJane[6] and was the founding editor at Africana.com.[7]

On February 2, 2021, Carroll published a memoir, Surviving the White Gaze.[8] 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, MGM/UA Television acquired the rights, with Carroll planned to adapt her memoir as a limited series produced by Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler at Killer Films.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ "Rebecca Carroll." Contemporary Authors Online. Gale, 2005. Retrieved via Biography In Context database, 16 December 2018.
  2. ^ "SUGAR IN THE RAW by Rebecca Carroll". Kirkus Reviews. October 15, 1996. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  3. ^ "Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America". www.publishersweekly.com. December 30, 1996. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  4. ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Saving the Race: Conversations on Du Bois from a Collective Memoir of Souls by Rebecca Carroll, Author Harlem Moon $14 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7679-1619-6". Publishers Weekly. June 1, 2004. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  5. ^ Johnson, Whitney (November 15, 2016). "How Being Told She Was 'Pretty For A Black Girl' Changed This Author's Life". Forbes. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  6. ^ Duke, Jo Laine (21 May 2014). "At 13, I Was Chosen To Be The Subject Of A Book About Being a Young Black Girl in America". xoJane: Women's Lifestyle & Community Site. Archived from the original on 24 July 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  7. ^ Bloomgarden-Smoke, Kara (6 January 2014). "Rebecca Carroll Is New Managing Editor of XoJane". New York Observer. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  8. ^ Kearsley, Blaise Allysen (January 28, 2021). "Finding oneself in 'Surviving the White Gaze' - The Boston Globe". Boston Globe. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  9. ^ Ramos, Dino-Ray (17 November 2020). "MGM/UA Television Acquires Rights To Rebecca Carroll Memoir 'Surviving The White Gaze'". Deadline. Retrieved 7 February 2021.

External links[]

  • Excerpt from Surviving the White Gaze at NBCNews
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