
Black Girl/White Girl
By Joyce Carol Oates
Subjects: African American college students, Fiction, sagas, African American women, Pennsylvania, fiction, Crimes against, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Drama, Social conditions, History, Race relations, Women college students
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
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