Rebecca Carroll

{{short description|Writer and radio producer}}

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Rebecca Anne Carroll (born 1969)"Rebecca Carroll." Contemporary Authors Online. Gale, 2005. Retrieved via Biography In Context database, 16 December 2018. is an American writer, editor and radio producer. She is producer of special projects at WNYC and the editor of collections including Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America{{cite news|title=SUGAR IN THE RAW by Rebecca Carroll|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/rebecca-carroll/sugar-in-the-raw/|accessdate=25 April 2017|work=Kirkus Reviews|date=October 15, 1996|language=en-us}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=December 30, 1996|title=Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-517-88497-3|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-12-08|website=www.publishersweekly.com}} and Saving the Race: Conversations on Du Bois from a Collective Memoir of Souls.{{cite news|title=Nonfiction Book Review: Saving the Race: Conversations on Du Bois from a Collective Memoir of Souls by Rebecca Carroll, Author Harlem Moon $14 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7679-1619-6|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7679-1619-6|accessdate=25 April 2017|work=Publishers Weekly|date=June 1, 2004|language=en}} She is a producer of the podcast on gentrification in Brooklyn There Goes the Neighborhood (produced with The Nation).{{cite news|last1=Johnson|first1=Whitney|title=How Being Told She Was 'Pretty For A Black Girl' Changed This Author's Life|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/whitneyjohnson/2016/11/15/how-being-told-she-was-pretty-for-a-black-girl-changed-this-founders-life/#f4c19062a49c|accessdate=25 April 2017|work=Forbes|date=November 15, 2016}} Previously she was managing editor at xoJane{{cite news|last1=Duke|first1=Jo Laine|title=At 13, I Was Chosen To Be The Subject Of A Book About Being a Young Black Girl in America|url=http://www.xojane.com/diy/sugar-in-the-raw-jo-laine-duke|accessdate=25 April 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140724090432/http://www.xojane.com/diy/sugar-in-the-raw-jo-laine-duke |archive-date=24 July 2014 |work=xoJane: Women's Lifestyle & Community Site|date=21 May 2014|language=en}} and was the founding editor at Africana.com.{{cite news|last1=Bloomgarden-Smoke|first1=Kara|title=Rebecca Carroll Is New Managing Editor of XoJane|url=http://observer.com/2014/01/rebecca-carroll-new-managing-editor-of-xojane/|accessdate=25 April 2017|work=New York Observer|date=6 January 2014}}

On February 2, 2021, Carroll published a memoir, Surviving the White Gaze.{{cite news |last1=Kearsley |first1=Blaise Allysen |title=Finding oneself in 'Surviving the White Gaze' - The Boston Globe |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/28/arts/finding-oneself-surviving-white-gaze/ |access-date=7 February 2021 |work=Boston Globe |date=January 28, 2021}} The book recounts Carroll's experience growing up as the only Black person and adoptive daughter of loving, white artist parents in their New Hampshire town. She felt some growing isolation as time went on but her life changed substantially when she met her white birth mother, who undermined Carroll's confidence as well as her identity as a Black person. The book traces the evolving tensions between her desire for acceptance from her mother, her love for her adoptive parents, and her own identity. Prior to publication, MGM/UA Television acquired the rights, with Carroll planned to adapt her memoir as a limited series produced by Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler at Killer Films.{{cite news |last1=Ramos |first1=Dino-Ray |title=MGM/UA Television Acquires Rights To Rebecca Carroll Memoir 'Surviving The White Gaze' |url=https://deadline.com/2020/11/mgm-ua-television-acquires-rights-rebecca-carroll-memoir-surviving-the-white-gaze-1234616674/ |access-date=7 February 2021 |work=Deadline |date=17 November 2020}}