American Negra: A Memoir

American Negra: A MemoirAward 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

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EAN: 9780778386094

Nguyen and his family are forced to flee his hometown of Ban Mê Thuột and come to the USA as refugees

Publisher: Little

big and small

the book’s topics range from the “alien” experience of blacks in America to the “wake up” cry that peppers sci-fi literature

and points beyond

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