Black Girl / White Girl
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Black Girl / White Girl | |
Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
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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.