Wolff, Mishna.

I'm down : a memoir / Mishna Wolff. - 1st ed. - New York : St. Martin's Griffin, c2010, c2009. - viii, 273 p. : ill. ports. ; 22 cm.

Relates the author's childhood growing up in a poor black neighborhood with a single father who truly believed he was black. Despite her father's best efforts, she didn't fit in with the neighborhood kids, but when suddenly sent to a rich white school, she was too "black" to fit in with her new classmates.

ISBN: 9780312378554 0312378556 9780312379094 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2008046317

Subjects--Personal Names:
Wolff, Mishna--Childhood and youth.
Wolff, Mishna--Family.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
African American neighborhoods--Washington (State)
Comedians--United States--Biography.
Models (Persons)--United States--Biography.

LC Class. No.: PN2287.W55 / A3 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 792.702/8092 B 818.09