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Introduction, “Half a Moon,” “Black Enough,” and “Warning: Color May Fade”

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Zoboi, Ibi, Editor. Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America. Balzer + Bray, 2019. Hardcover.

· In the Introduction, Ibi Zoboi writes that she was born in Haiti, a country known for having had the first successful slave revolt in the world.

· Haiti became the first independent Black nation in the Western Hemisphere in 1804.

· Zoboi believes that has to count as “the most Blackest thing that ever happened in history” (xi).

· However, when Zoboi immigrated to the U.S. as a child, the Black and Latinx kids in her Brooklyn neighborhood did not think she was “Black enough” (xi).

· She wore ribbons in her hair and fancy dresses to school.

· Her accent was weird and her name strange.

· She did not fit the definition of...

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