An American Daughter of Brown - Robinson, Bari S
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"Lauren Sullivan, an eight year-old African-American, struggles to find her own identity in the 1950s and '60s in the aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education and refuses to allow the intense forces of racism and sexism of this period to limit or define her. She is forced to learn to confront those negative forces and communicate her views and positions strongly and clearly even though voices such as hers are not welcomed or even acknowledged by those in authority in and outside of her school and community. Lauren's tory forces the reader to question how far the United States has advanced in…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
"Lauren Sullivan, an eight year-old African-American, struggles to find her own identity in the 1950s and '60s in the aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education and refuses to allow the intense forces of racism and sexism of this period to limit or define her. She is forced to learn to confront those negative forces and communicate her views and positions strongly and clearly even though voices such as hers are not welcomed or even acknowledged by those in authority in and outside of her school and community. Lauren's tory forces the reader to question how far the United States has advanced in its strugle for civil rights, both as to race and gender."--Page 4 of cover.
Autorenporträt
Bari S. Robinson is an attorney who practices law in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received a B.S. in French Education from the University of Kansas. She also holds a Master's in French from the State University of New York at Binghamton and a Juris Doctor from BerkeleyLaw, the University of California at Berkeley. Ms. Robinson is also the author of Cuba's Guarded Promise. A Country on the Cusp of Enormous Change, a work of non-fiction. She currently resides in Oakland, California.