Rebecca Carroll

Sugar in the Raw (eBook, ePUB)

Voices of Young Black Girls in America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Crown
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Altersempfehlung: ab 13 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307560414
• Artikelnr.: 39248719

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Carroll is the author of several books, including Saving the Race: Conversations on Du Bois from a Collective Memoir of Souls and the award-winning Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America. She lives in New York City with her husband, the sociologist Christopher Bonastia, and their son, Kofi. Ntozake Shange is an American playwright and poet. Shange is a black feminist and a critic of the Black Arts Movement. She majored in American Studies at Barnard and earned a master's degree in the same field at UCLA. Her most famous work, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, moved from Off-Broadway to Broadway and won the Obie Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, and the AUDELCO Award.