American Negra: A Memoir Binding:Hardcover and foundational texts like the

and foundational texts like the Declaration of Independence and Democracy in America

engaging verse and prose

Publisher: Razorbill

in Bethune's shadow: her grandmother trained to be a teacher at Bethune-Cookman University

American Negra: A Memoir Binding:Hardcover and foundational texts like theAward 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