- Black Girl / White Girl
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name = Black Girl / White Girl
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author =Joyce Carol Oates
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country =United States
language = English
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genre =Novel
publisher =Ecco
release_date = 2 October 2006
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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 pagemanuscript written in 1990 by Generva Meade, a white historian, who truthfully recounts the events which happened during herfreshman year at a prestigious liberal college in 1974-75 and which led up to the death of her roommate, anAfrican American girl who had been sent to the college on ascholarship and encounteredracial discrimination there.
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