Jane Lazarre, writer and professor of creative writing and literature at the New School, moderates a conversation with activist and writer Rebecca Walker about her new memoir, Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self (2001). This lecture is part of the 2001 Ruth and Oliver Stanton About Women series. Walker speaks about her unconventional family and childhood. Her father is a white, Jewish man from Brooklyn and her mother is Alice Walker, a black social activist and writer. When her parents got divorced, she would spend two years at a time with each parent, moving back and forth from California and New York. She reflects on the physical, social, and cultural distance between her identities and the worlds she lived in. When asked what parts of her life and identity she most resonates with, Walker declares, “the plain truth is that I am all of the above.” The discussion is followed by questions from the audience.