The Black girl next door
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Jennifer Baszile.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781416543275; 9781416543282
Subjects: Baszile, Jennifer Lynn, -- 1969- -- Childhood and youth; African American women -- California -- Palos Verdes Estates -- Biography; African Americans -- California -- Palos Verdes Estates -- Biography; Palos Verdes Estates (Calif.) -- Biography; California -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Genres: Biography.
Description: Traces the author's coming-of-age in an exclusive white California suburb in the 1970s and 1980s, describing the prejudices that minimized her family's achievements and her struggles to define herself as "the black girl next door" in light of her parents' dreams.
Notes: "A Touchstone Book."