Black Girl/White Girl

By Joyce Carol Oates

Subjects: Social conditions, History, Fiction, sagas, Fiction, African American women, Crimes against, Women college students, African American college students, Drama, Pennsylvania, fiction, Race relations, New York Times reviewed

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