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Carroll, Rebecca, ed., with a foreword by Ntozake Shange, Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America, Crown, 1997.
This collection of nonfiction first-person narratives about the lives of fifteen girls, aged eleven to eighteen, from all across America, addresses issues of self-esteem, identity, and values, offering an authentic portrait of contemporary black girlhood.
Haskins, Jim, Separate but Not Equal: The Dream and the
Struggle, Scholastic, 1997.
Tracing back from the 1957 crisis in Little Rock to explore the history of segregated education, Haskins sets a thorough context for the school integration crisis of the 1950s1970s and also covers the landmark cases of the struggle. This book is aimed specifically at a high-school audience.
Landry, Bart, The New Black Middle Class, University of
California Press, 1987.
In this in-depth academic study, sociologist Landry describes the rise of an elite and privileged class of African Americans...
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