{"product_id":"black-girl-next-door-paperback","title":"Black Girl Next Door - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJennifer Baszile\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A powerful, beautifully written memoir about coming of age as a black girl in an exclusive white suburb in \"integrated,\" post-Civil Rights California in the 1970s and 1980s. \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e At six years of age, after winning a foot race against a white classmate, Jennifer Baszile was humiliated to hear her classmate explain that black people \"have something in their feet to make them run faster than white people.\" When she asked her teacher about it, it was confirmed as true. The next morning, Jennifer's father accompanied her to school, careful to \"assert himself as an informed and concerned parent and not simply a big, black, dangerous man in a first-grade classroom.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This was the first of many skirmishes in Jennifer's childhood-long struggle to define herself as \"the black girl next door\" while living out her parents' dreams. Success for her was being the smartest and achieving the most, with the consequence that much of her girlhood did not seem like her own but more like the \"family project.\" But integration took a toll on everyone in the family when strain in her parents' marriage emerged in her teenage years, and the struggle to be the perfect black family became an unbearable burden. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A deeply personal view of a significant period of American social history, \u003ci\u003eThe Black Girl Next Door\u003c\/i\u003e deftly balances childhood experiences with adult observations, creating an illuminating and poignant look at a unique time in our country's history.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJennifer Baszile received her B.A. from Columbia University and her Ph.D. in American history from Princeton University. She was the first black female professor to join Yale University's history department and has been named one of the \"Thirty Leaders of the Future\" by \u003ci\u003eEbony\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. She lives in Connecticut.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 8.66 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 29, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183291285753,"sku":"9781416543282","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/KzdYL3ljQ2Flb0ZkYkk5T2MyL1JGUT09.webp?v=1767769565","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/black-girl-next-door-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}