Title: The Black girl next door
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.
Subjects: Biography, Race relations, African American women, African Americans, Childhood and youth, History, New York Times reviewed, African americans, california, African americans, biography, California, biography
Places: California, Palos Verdes Estates, Palos Verdes Estates (Calif.)
People: Jennifer Lynn Baszile (1969-)
Time periods: 20th century