Black Girl / White Girl
 First edition | |
| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Ecco |
Publication date | 2 October 2006 |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 288 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | 978-0-06-112564-5 (first edition, hardback) |
| OCLC | 69734673 |
| 813/.54 22 | |
| LC Class | PS3565.A8 B46 2006 |
| Preceded by | Missing Mom |
| Followed by | The Gravedigger's Daughter |
Black Girl / White Girl is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates first published in 2006. It takes the form of an untitled 300 page manuscript written in 1990 by Generva Meade, a white historian, who truthfully recounts the events which happened during her first year at a prestigious liberal college in 1974-75, and Meade's own paternal family history which uncomfortably spans the gap between a proud history of progressive thinking and subsequent revolutionary and violent ideas. The action on the stage is played by a Black conservative Christian who reluctantly attends the school on a scholarship and encounters racial discrimination there. Subsequent events and her own disintegrating mental health lead to a personal and institutional tragedy.
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