Black Girl Next Door A Memoir

Name: Black Girl Next Door A Memoir
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ISBN: 9781416543282

ISBN-10: 1416543287

ISBN-13: 9781416543282

Edition: 2009

Authors: Jennifer Baszile

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A powerful, beautifully written memoir about coming of age as a black girl in an exclusive white suburb in "integrated," post-Civil Rights California in the 1970s and 1980s.At six years of age, after winning a foot race against a white classmate, Jennifer Baszile was humiliated to hear her classmate explain that black people "have something in their feet to make them run faster than white people." When she asked her teacher about it, it was confirmed as true. The next morning, Jennifer's father accompanied her to school, careful to "assert himself as an informed and concerned parent and not simply a big, black, dangerous man in a first-grade classroom."This was the first of many skirmishes…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Touchstone
Publication date: 12/29/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.594