American Negra: A Memoir Binding:Hardcover EAN: 9780307276766

EAN: 9780307276766

and foundational texts like the Declaration of Independence and Democracy in America

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and resonant” (Publishers Weekly) prose

Kuang comes Babel

American Negra: A Memoir Binding:Hardcover EAN: 9780307276766Award winning journalist Natasha S. Alford grew up between two worlds as the daughter of an African American father and Puerto Rican mother. In American Negra, a narrative that is part memoir, part cultural analysis, Alford reflects on growing up in a working class family from the city of Syracuse, NY. In smart, vivid prose, Alford illustrates the complexity of being multiethnic in Upstate New York and society's flawed teachings about matters of