Betsey Brown : a novel / Ntozake Shange

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : St. Martin's Press, c1985Edition: First EditionDescription: 207 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 312077270
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • FIC .S53 1985
Summary: The story of thirteen-year-old Betsey Brown, a colored girl poised between childhood and the adult world. Set in the colored community of St. Louis in 1959, the year school integration disrupted everybody's lives, traces the stress lines created in black families not only by racism and court-ordered integration, but also by the class conflict and cultural estrangement found within the black community itself.
Item type: Books - Fiction
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Books - Fiction Books - Fiction National University - Manila LRC - Annex Fiction Fiction FIC .S53 1985 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000003739

The story of thirteen-year-old Betsey Brown, a colored girl poised between childhood and the adult world. Set in the colored community of St. Louis in 1959, the year school integration disrupted everybody's lives, traces the stress lines created in black families not only by racism and court-ordered integration, but also by the class conflict and cultural estrangement found within the black community itself.

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