{"product_id":"2940170493012","title":"I'm Down: A Memoir","description":"Mishna Wolff grew up in a poor black neighborhood with her single father, a white man who truly believed he was black. \"He strutted around with a short perm, a Cosby-esque sweater, gold chains and a Kangol-telling jokes like Redd Fox, and giving advice like Jesse Jackson. You couldn't tell my father he was white. Believe me, I tried,\" writes Wolff. And so from early childhood on, her father began his crusade to make his white daughter \u003ci\u003edown\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnfortunately, Mishna didn't quite fit in with the neighborhood kids: she couldn't dance, she couldn't sing, she couldn't double dutch, and she was the worst player on her all-black basketball team. She was shy, uncool, and painfully white. And yet when she was suddenly sent to a rich white school, she found she was too \"black\" to fit in with her white classmates.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e I'm Down\u003c\/i\u003e is a hip, hysterical, and at the same time beautiful memoir that will have you howling with laughter, recommending it to friends and questioning what it means to be black and white in America.","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47115444781296,"sku":"2940170493012","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170493012_p0.jpg?v=1763710763","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170493012","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}