I'm Down: A Memoir Juvenile Fiction Historical - Africa Action & Adventure - Survival Stories Stories in Verse (see also Poetry) exploring the ways in which

exploring the ways in which black hair has been appropriated and stigmatized throughout history

is the exciting follow-up to the acclaimed first volume

colorful experience

Crushing It

I'm Down: A Memoir Juvenile Fiction Historical - Africa Action & Adventure - Survival Stories Stories in Verse (see also Poetry) exploring the ways in whichMishna 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 esqe sweater, gold chains and a Kangoltelling 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 down.