Brown girl, brownstones

Paule Marshall First published 1959

About this book

"Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, this is the story of a Selina Boyce, the daughter of Barbadian immigrants. She is caught between the struggles of her hard-working, ambitious mother, who wnats to "buy house" and educate her daughters, and her father, who longs to return to the land in Barbados. Selina seeks to define her own identity and values as she struggles to surmount the racism and poverty that surround her."--Page 4 of cover.

Subjects

1000blackgirlbooks
813/.54
african americans
african american women
barbadian americans
caribische literatuur
domestic fiction
feminist fiction
fictie
fiction
fiction, family life
fiction, general
fiction, psychological
fiction, women
indians of north america, fiction
literature
new york (n.y.), fiction
ps3563.a7223 b7 2006
west indian americans
west indian americans--fiction
women
women, biography
young women
young women, fiction
young women--fiction