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.
The Black Girl Next Door: A Memoir is the candid and deeply personal story of Baszile's California girlhood lived in the midst of tremendous change: integration. As a member of the first generation of Americans born after the end of legal segregation, Baszile and her contemporaries spent their childhoods fulfilling the nation’s promise of equality. But along the way, Baszile lived in the painful space between hope and reality, where no one, not even adults knew what to expect.
