Sugar in the Raw
Voices of Young Black Girls in America
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Publisher Description
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America, Rebecca Carroll profiles 15 of the more than 50 girls, ages 11-20, she interviewed throughout the country. Singly and together, they speak eloquently for the generation of young women coming of age in a complex world. Carroll writes in her introduction: "many black girls don't know that individual accountability is not a myth or a crime: It is what makes it possible for us to live together on the planet as human beings." Her work is enabling and enlightening. The foreword is by Ntozake Shange.
