Black, White, Other by Joan Steinau Lester - 9780310761518

Name: Black, White, Other by Joan Steinau Lester - 9780310761518
Brand: Joan Steinau Lester

Joan Steinau Lester

Black, White, OtherIn Search of Nina Armstrong\nAuthor(s): Joan Steinau Lester\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: HarperCollins Focus, United States\nImprint: Blink\nISBN-13: 9780310761518, 978-0310761518\nSynopsis\nIdentity Crisis.\n\nAs a biracial teen, Nina is accustomed to a life of varied huesmocha-colored skin, ringed brown hair streaked with red, a black father, a white mother. When her parents decide to divorce, the rainbow of Ninas existence is reduced to a much starker reality. Shifting definitions and relationships are playing out all around her, and new boxes and lines seem to be drawn every day.\n\nBetween the fractures within her family and the racial tensions splintering her hometown, Nina feels caught in perpetual battle. Stranded in a nowhere land of ethnic boundaries, and struggling for personal independence and identity, Nina turns to the story of her great-great-grandmothers escape from slavery in hopes of finding her own compass to help navigate the challenges beforet