Black Girl / White Girl

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Black Girl / White Girl
Author Joyce Carol Oates
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Ecco
Publication date 2 October 2006
Media type Print (Hardback
Pages 288 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN ISBN 978-0061125645 (first edition, hardback)
Preceded by Missing Mom
Followed by The Gravedigger's Daughter

Black Girl / White Girl is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates first published in 2006. It takes the form of an untitled 300 page manuscript written in 1990 by Generva Meade, a white historian, who truthfully recounts the events which happened during her freshman year at a prestigious liberal college in 1974-75 and which led up to the death of her roommate, an African American girl who had been sent to the college on a scholarship and encountered racial discrimination there.