Black girl/white girl
Subtitle: a novel
By: Joyce Carol Oates
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Ecco
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Race relations -- Fiction; African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Fiction; Women college students -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: Remembering Minette Swift, the talented, assertive, 19-year-old African-American girl enrolled as a scholarship student in an exclusive, mostly white liberal arts college near Philadelphia who died under mysterious circumstances fifteen years earlier, Genna, her former roommate, begins an unofficial inquiry into her death.  As she reconstructs their tumultuous freshman year at the college in race-torn 1960s Philadelphia,  Genna is led also to reconstruct her life as the daughter of a famous "radical-hippie-lawyer" of the 1960s