{"id":17782,"date":"2021-08-04T09:07:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T15:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=17782"},"modified":"2021-08-03T19:25:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T01:25:18","slug":"book-30-the-misadventures-of-awkward-black-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/book-30-the-misadventures-of-awkward-black-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 30 &#8211; The Misadventures Of Awkward Black Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17783\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/awkwardblackgirl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17783\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17783\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/awkwardblackgirl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/awkwardblackgirl.jpg 350w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/awkwardblackgirl-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Misadventures Of Awkward Black Girl &#8211; Issa Rae<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Issa Rae, a writer, actress, and producer, tells of her years growing up as the awkward black girl.\u00a0 Born in Los Angeles, Rae spent time growing up in Senegal, her father&#8217;s homeland, and Maryland before returning to LA in the sixth grade.\u00a0 This led to her being the odd-fitting one wherever she was, either the American in Africa or the black girl in a predominately white Maryland neighborhood, which fed into her storytelling style, leading to the web series <em>Awkward Black Girl<\/em> and, subsequently, this book.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, my interest in Rae&#8217;s work is more recent and this book, released in 2015, predates any of the things I am familiar with.\u00a0 That must be why I didn&#8217;t really connect with this.\u00a0 Not saying it was bad in any way, but I wasn&#8217;t as hooked as I have been by other memoirs from her peers.\u00a0 Maybe there will be a follow up one day, with tales of her move from YouTube to Showtime and the big screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issa Rae, a writer, actress, and producer, tells of her years growing up as the awkward black girl.\u00a0 Born in Los Angeles, Rae spent time growing up in Senegal, her father&#8217;s homeland, and Maryland before returning to LA in the sixth grade.\u00a0 This led to her being the odd-fitting one wherever she was, either the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9716,9182,1568,9715,5124],"class_list":["post-17782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-awkward-black-girl","tag-issa-rae","tag-showtime","tag-the-misadventures-of-awkward-black-girl","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17784,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17782\/revisions\/17784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}