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Black Girl/White Girl
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Black Girl/White Girl Paperback - 2007

by Joyce Carol Oates

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This painfully intimate depiction of race in America is a double portrait of "black" and "white" in America in the years of crisis following the end of the Vietnam War.

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Harper Perennial. Used - Like New. 2007. Paperback. Small publisher's mark on bottom of text block. Otherwise, Fine.
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  • Title Black Girl/White Girl
  • Author Joyce Carol Oates
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2007-05-29
  • Bookseller's Inventory # BR24803
  • ISBN 9780061125652 / 0061125652
  • Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 6.62 x 0.76 in (20.32 x 16.81 x 1.93 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Coming of Age
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Race relations
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

Fifteen years ago, in 1975, Genna Hewett-Meade's college roommate died a mysterious, violent, terrible death. Minette Swift had been a fiercely individualistic scholarship student, an assertive—even prickly—personality, and one of the few black girls at an exclusive women's liberal arts college near Philadelphia. By contrast, Genna was a quiet, self-effacing teenager from a privileged upper-class home, self-consciously struggling to make amends for her own elite upbringing. When, partway through their freshman year, Minette suddenly fell victim to an increasing torrent of racist harassment and vicious slurs—from within the apparent safety of their tolerant, "enlightened" campus—Genna felt it her duty to protect her roommate at all costs.Now, as Genna reconstructs the months, weeks, and hours leading up to Minette's tragic death, she is also forced to confront her own identity within the social framework of that time. Her father was a prominent civil defense lawyer whose radical politics—including defending anti-war terrorists wanted by the FBI—would deeply affect his daughter's outlook on life, and later challenge her deepest beliefs about social obligation in a morally gray world.Black Girl / White Girl is a searing double portrait of "black" and "white," of race and civil rights in post-Vietnam America, captured by one of the most important literary voices of our time.

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Citations

  • New York Times, 07/08/2007, Page 24