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I'm Down is a memoir by the American author Mishna Wolff, originally published by St. Martin's Press in 2009. [1] In the book, she relates her experience of being white while growing up in a predominantly African-American neighborhood and having a different financial situation and culture than the other white children at her gifted student public school program filled with mostly white kids.
Wolff's I'm Down: A Memoir was published by St. Martin's Press in 2009 and was a national best seller. [citation needed] In 2011, KCBD of Lubbock, Texas, ran a story about I'm Down ' s being littered with profanity and inappropriate for Lubbock County English students. [4] The book was removed from classrooms pending formal school district review.
"I'm Down" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. It was released on a non-album single as the B-side to "Help!" in July 1965. The song originated in McCartney's attempt to write a song in the style of Little Richard, whose song "Long Tall Sally" the band regularly covered.
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The novel is laced with pseudonym references to Cornell University ("Mentor University") and Ithaca landmarks. Gnossos is a gleeful anarchist, heaving creche statuary off a bridge into one of Ithaca's famed gorges, smoking dope at fraternity parties, poking fun at the pompous, self-righteous and well-to-do, swilling Red Cap ale, retsina and ...
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