Carroll is brave and she is a wonderful writer. Carroll not only has to deal with the racism of her childhood and adolescent community, but the toxic relationship that she has with her white birth mother and the misguided patriarchy of her white adopted family. Rebecca Carroll's Surviving the White Gaze is a brave and harrowing journey. As Rebecca Carroll vividly reveals in her searing memoir, Surviving the White Gaze, her adoptive parents were woefully unprepared to raise a Black child, clueless to the challenges she faced as the only Black resident of their rural New Hampshire town. It’s the white police officer brutalizing Black citizens without cause or provocation, the white educator who instinctively adjusts their expectations for a Black student, and in Rebecca Carroll’s. Surviving the white gaze rebecca carroll. Carroll trains her own formidable gaze on her origins, the stories that get told about them, and her drive to wrest some control of her own narrative and identity. 'Surviving the White Gaze is not just about survival, but interrogation: of family, race, power and the lasting impact of intimate harm.

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