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285, pencil and ink notations and highlighting on a few pages. The author is

285, pencil and ink notations and highlighting on a few pages. The author is a widely admired African-American journalist. She was the child of sharecroppers, and in this memoir chronicles her transformation inthe Air Force into an Intelligence Officer, and her years at Harvard Law School.

xvii, 285, [1] p. Born of black sharecropper parents, Dickerson, a journalist

xvii, 285, [1] p. Born of black sharecropper parents, Dickerson, a journalist published in the New Republic, Salon, and other prestigious publications, led a life informed by the poverty of her upbringing. Here, she tells how she pulled ahead, surviving the self-loathing of her adolescent years, and fulfilling the promise of her family. Debra Dickerson has lived through severe hardships in her forty-four years--physical abuse, poverty, racism, sexism, rape--and has emerged from each traumatic experience a bit more self aware, and a great deal stronger. Today she is a brilliant and outspoken journalist, but the path she followed and what it took to reach this point is both surprising and inspiring. In her memoir, AN AMERICAN STORY, Dickerson unmasks herself, her family, and our society, bearing witness to her complex, if tumultuous, life as an American. Over the course of her life, Debra Dickerson has reinvented herself time and again, and is a woman who transcends stereotypes. She exhibits a kind of quiet heroism, and AN AMERICAN STORY provides a role model for women--black and white--of all ages. She is also the author of THE END OF BLACKNESS. From Wikipedia: Debra J. Dickerson (born 1959) is an American author, editor, writer, and current contributing writer and blogger for Mother Jones magazine. Dickerson has been most prolific as an essayist, writing frequently on race relations and racial identity in the United States. She dropped out of Florissant Valley Community College and the University of Missouri, soon after to serve in the United States Air Force from 1980 to 1992 as an intelligence officer. She earned a B.A. in Politics and Government from the University of Maryland, College Park. Dickerson attended St. Mary's University and completed her master's in International Relations while still in the military. Her Air Force career culminated in her appointment as Chief of Intelligence at Ankara Air Station. In 1992 she worked for President Clinton's presidential campaign while awaiting entrance to Harvard Law School. She graduated HLS in 1995. While attending Harvard, she said she "had no stomach for the law. I decided to study less (a whole lot less) and have some fun." She began writing a column for the Harvard Law Record, the school's newspaper. Ultimately she would pursue a full-time career in writing. She credits the 1996 New Republic essay "Who Shot Johnny? " for jump-starting her career. It describes a drive-by shooting that left her nephew paralyzed, and the family's ambivalence and frustration in knowing the shooter was a fellow African-American. Her work has since appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, Good Housekeeping, VIBE, Mother Jones, Slate, The Village Voice, Salon and many other publications. After giving up her personal blog in September 2007, Dickerson announced she will become a blogger for Mother Jones magazine. Dickerson has published two books, An American Story, a memoir, and The End of Blackness. She attracted some attention, as well as accusations of race baiting, in 2007 by declaring that because Democratic president Barack Obama is not a descendant of West Africans brought involuntarily to the United States as slaves, he is not "black."