false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1226976504m/3137469.jpg 3137469 3 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. 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." 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. A deeply personal view of a significant period of American social history, <i>The Black Girl Next Door</i> deftly balances childhood experiences with adult observations, creating an illuminating and poignant look at a unique time in our country's history. 3168893 13 1 2009 The Black Girl Next Door: A Memoir total:83|5:10|4:37|3:26|2:10|1:0| 83 296 232 35 3137469 1416543279 9781416543275 83 35 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1226976504m/3137469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3137469.The_Black_Girl_Next_Door_A_Memoir 5 0 false Sun Aug 16 06:50:02 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 06:50:36 -0700 2009 Another Shade of Blackness

This is a rather unique perspective into growing up Black in an America when you have atypical economic circumstances but still suffer some of the stereotypical abuses of African Americans while trying to establish an identity that will let you survive. Poignant...more...]]> 3137469 1416543279 9781416543275 83 35 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1226976504m/3137469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3137469.The_Black_Girl_Next_Door_A_Memoir 3 0 false Sun May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 16:07:33 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 07:51:35 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 3137469 1416543279 9781416543275 83 35 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1226976504m/3137469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3137469.The_Black_Girl_Next_Door_A_Memoir 5 0 false Tue May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 12:47:17 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 00:02:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3137469 1416543279 9781416543275 83 35 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1226976504m/3137469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3137469.The_Black_Girl_Next_Door_A_Memoir 4 0 false Mon May 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 11:49:48 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 12:36:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3137469 1416543279 9781416543275 83 35 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1226976504m/3137469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3137469.The_Black_Girl_Next_Door_A_Memoir 2 0 false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 08:06:31 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 08:15:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3137469 1416543279 9781416543275 83 35 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1226976504m/3137469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3137469.The_Black_Girl_Next_Door_A_Memoir 0 0 false Wed Mar 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Feb 18 13:20:35 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 26 13:30:18 -0700 2009
Becoming a suburbanite seems to be one defining eleme...more...]]> 3137469 1416543279 9781416543275 83 35 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1226976504m/3137469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3137469.The_Black_Girl_Next_Door_A_Memoir 4 0 false Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 04:21:38 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 14:35:11 -0700 2009
At an early age, Jennifer, her parents and sister Natalie moved to a predominately white neighborhood in Palos Verdes, CA. Her parents had only wanted the best...more...]]> 3137469 1416543279 9781416543275 83 35 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1226976504m/3137469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3137469.The_Black_Girl_Next_Door_A_Memoir 3 0 false Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jan 09 11:36:56 -0800 2009 Thu Jun 04 09:27:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3137469 1416543279 9781416543275 83 35 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1226976504m/3137469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3137469.The_Black_Girl_Next_Door_A_Memoir 3 0 false Sat May 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 16:01:04 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 09:25:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3137469 1416543279 9781416543275 83 35 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1226976504m/3137469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3137469.The_Black_Girl_Next_Door_A_Memoir 4 0 false Thu May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Feb 09 15:53:34 -0800 2009 Fri May 15 08:27:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3137469 1416543279 9781416543275 83 35 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1226976504m/3137469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3137469.The_Black_Girl_Next_Door_A_Memoir 4 0 false Tue Jun 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 07:16:39 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 07:28:20 -0700 2009 This memoir of a 40-yr-old professor, the first black woman in Yale's history department, follows her childhood discoveries of her family's unique development with a poignant teen-aged revelation of her own sense of purpose. Chapter Seven is titled "I DON'T THINK OF YOU AS BLACK" an...more...]]> 3137469 1416543279 9781416543275 83 35 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1226976504m/3137469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3137469.The_Black_Girl_Next_Door_A_Memoir 3 0 false Fri Aug 07 19:00:17 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 19:03:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3137469 1416543279 9781416543275 83 35 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1226976504m/3137469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3137469.The_Black_Girl_Next_Door_A_Memoir 0 0 false Tue Apr 28 18:34:21 -0700 2009 Sat Feb 21 05:28:39 -0800 2009 Tue Apr 28 18:34:21 -0700 2009
Her story of growing up an upper-class black in a whit...more...]]> 3137469 1416543279 9781416543275 83 35 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1226976504m/3137469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3137469.The_Black_Girl_Next_Door_A_Memoir 4 0 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 14:03:11 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 18:36:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3137469 1416543279 9781416543275 83 35 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1226976504m/3137469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3137469.The_Black_Girl_Next_Door_A_Memoir 3 0 false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 12:37:01 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 10:45:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3137469 1416543279 9781416543275 83 35 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1226976504m/3137469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3137469.The_Black_Girl_Next_Door_A_Memoir 4 0 false Fri Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 17:45:05 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 17:45:05 -0700 2009


all as not as it seems in this novel of upwardly mobile blacks in a white surburb.
although the girls do well in school and are involving in many activities. homelife is far from serene. The price each family member pays questions whether this striving is worth it all.]]> 3137469 1416543279 9781416543275 83 35 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1226976504m/3137469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3137469.The_Black_Girl_Next_Door_A_Memoir 3 0 false Sat Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Feb 07 06:22:22 -0800 2009 Sat Jul 04 14:12:19 -0700 2009
Why did they have two different lifes.....they had a Mon through Thursday one and then a Friday throu...more...]]> 3137469 1416543279 9781416543275 83 35 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1226976504m/3137469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3137469.The_Black_Girl_Next_Door_A_Memoir 5 0 false Wed Mar 04 21:12:19 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 21:13:42 -0800 2009 3137469 1416543279 9781416543275 83 35 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1226976504m/3137469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3137469.The_Black_Girl_Next_Door_A_Memoir 3 0 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 12:13:55 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 12:15:15 -0700 2009 3137469 1416543279 9781416543275 83 35 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1226976504m/3137469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3137469.The_Black_Girl_Next_Door_A_Memoir 2 0 false Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 12:38:47 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 12:51:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3137469