Rebecca is a writer, creative consultant, editor-at-large, and host of the podcast Come Through with Rebecca Carroll: 15 Essential Conversations about Race in a Pivotal Year for America (WNYC Studios). Most recently, she was a cultural critic at WNYC, and a critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Times. Her writing has been published widely, and she’s the author of several books about race in America, including the award-winning Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America. Her memoir, Surviving the White Gaze (Simon & Schuster, Feb 2021), has been optioned by MGM Studios and Killer Films with Rebecca attached to adapt for TV.

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Rebecca Carroll Surviving The White Gaze

UPCOMING EVENTS

A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful struggle to overcome a completely white childhood in order to forge her identity as a black woman in America. Rebecca Carroll. In Surviving the White Gaze, Rebecca Carroll grew up the only black person in her rural New Hampshire town. Adopted at birth by artistic parents who believed in peace, love, and zero population growth, her early childhood was loving and idyllic—and yet she couldn’t articulate the deep sense of isolation she increasingly felt as she grew older.

Rebecca Carroll Bio

February 9, 2021

Rebecca Carroll Surviving The White Gaze With Desus

Rebecca Carroll — SURVIVING THE WHITE GAZE - in conversation with Nicole Chung
Politics & Prose

February 11, 2021

Powell's Books Presents Rebecca Carroll in Conversation With Desus Nice

March 4, 2021

Raceless

Oblong Online: Nadia Owusu & Rebecca Carroll