num_pages: 144
description: With raw candor, elicited by Rebecca Carroll's perceptive questioning, 15 black women between the ages of 11 and 18, from places as diverse as Brooklyn and Seattle, Alabama and Vermont, speak out about their inner and outer lives. What they say about identity, self-esteem, the role of race in their perceptions and treatment, personal values, and their hopes for the future is both enlightening and moving. 144 pp. National pubilcity. 15,000 print.
language: English
title: Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America
titlecomplete: Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America
genres: History, Feminism, Biography, Race, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 110
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: ALA Alex Award
publisher: Clarkson Potter