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Sugar in the Raw

Voices of Young Black Girls in America

By Rebecca Carroll
Foreword by Ntozake Shange

By Rebecca Carroll
Foreword by Ntozake Shange

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Aug 24, 2011 | ISBN 9780307560414 | 13-17 years

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About Sugar in the Raw

With raw candor, elicited by Rebecca Carroll’s perceptive questioning, 15 black women between the ages of 11 and 18, from places as diverse as Brooklyn and Seattle, Alabama and Vermont, speak out about their inner and outer lives. What they say about identity, self-esteem, the role of race in their perceptions and treatment, personal values, and their hopes for the future is both enlightening and moving. 144 pp. National pubilcity. 15,000 print.

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About Rebecca Carroll

Rebecca Carroll is the author of several books, including Saving the Race: Conversations on Du Bois from a Collective Memoir of Souls and the award-winning Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America. She lives in New York City with her… More about Rebecca Carroll

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Category: Teen & Young Adult Nonfiction

Ebook | $4.99
Published by Crown
Aug 24, 2011 | 144 Pages | 13-17 years | ISBN 9780307560414
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“An urgent dispatch from a group of girls who will not–and must not–be ignored. Carroll allows her subjects to tell their own, unfiltered stories, and they do: joyfully, painfully, and always powerfully.”–Peggy Orenstein, author of School Girls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap

“A stunning achievement.”–Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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