Black enough [sound recording] : stories of being young & Black in America / edited by Ibi Zoboi.

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ISBN:

9780062885418

Edition:

Unabridged.

Publication Information:

[New York, N.Y.] : Harper Audio, [2019]

Physical Description:

9 audio discs (11 1/4 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:

Title from container.

Compact discs.

Contents:

Half a Moon / Renée Watson -- Black enough / Varian Johnson -- Warning, color may fade / Leah Henderson -- Black. Nerd. Problems / L. R Giles -- Out of the silence / Kekla Magoon -- Ingredients / Jason Reynolds -- Oreo / Brandy Colbert -- Samson and the Delilahs / Tochi Onyebuchi -- Stop playing / Liara Tamani -- Wild horses, wild hearts / Jay Coles -- Whoa! / Rita Williams-Garcia -- Gravity / Tracey Baptiste -- The trouble with drowning / Dhonielle Clayton -- Kissing Sarah Smart / Justina Ireland -- Hackathon Summers / Coe Booth -- Into the starlight / Nic Stone -- The revolution of Nigeria Jones / Ibi Zoboi.

Summary:

A collection of short stories explore what it is like to be young and black, centering on the experiences of black teenagers and emphasizing that one person's experiences, reality, and personal identity are different than someone else.

Black is: sisters navigating their relationship at summer camp in Portland, Oregon, as written by Renee Watson. Black is: three friends walking back from the community pool talking about nothing and everything, in a story by Jason Reynolds. Black is: Nic Stone's high-class beauty dating a boy her momma would never approve of. Black is: two girls kissing in Justina Ireland's story set in Maryland. Black is urban and rural, wealthy and poor, mixed race, immigrants, and more, because there are countless ways to be Black enough.

Subject Term:

African American teenagers -- Fiction

Teenagers, Black -- Fiction

African American youth -- Fiction.

Black teenagers--United States -- Fiction

Black youth--United States -- Fiction

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