Nanakofidarku

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This book about a young woman named Star Carter who is situated within Garden heights. Garden heights embodies many urban attributes due it its predominantly black population. Despite this Star and her two brothers Seven and Sekani attend a predominantly white private school . As Sky attends this school she consistently changes her personality to fit in to the environment and embodies a double sided personality that brings her “blackness”

Nanakofidarku Into question by her best friend Kenya as Sky spends most of the day at the school. Kenya invites Sky to a party during the spring break where Sky begins to change her personality to more “getto” to fit in. In the party Sky meets up with an old life long friend Khalil. As they catch up Sky later realizes that Khalil had been selling drugs to support his family. 4y

Nanakofidarku During the party a gang related altercation with fire arms broke out causing sky and Khalil to flee. As they were driving home catching up a police officer pulled over Khalil over a Broken tail light. As the officer begins to pat Khalil down due to suspicion he walks over to the car to check of on Sky and grab a hair brush. The officer then open fired on Khalil killing him. The officer claimed to have mistaken the hairbrush for a firearm. 4y

Nanakofidarku This led to Sky unfortunately having to witness the death of her life long friend. News about Khalil‘s death became viral and erupted several protest and cry‘s for justice. Sky also engages within activism as well fighting for the justice of Khalil. After his death Sky becomes more aware of the of the micro racial aggressions that are held by her classmates as they even use the news of Khalils death to walk out of class. 4y

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Nanakofidarku .Her newfound passion for activism allowed her to address her double sided personalities for different environments as well as confronting her friends. Her passion for activism had also allowed her to fight against gang violence and racial stereotypes. 4y

Nanakofidarku If you like books that are based of off true events and outline substantial issues that people face today you will definitely like this book as it provides a very good insight on what people of colour go through. 4y

Nanakofidarku This book is told from the first person point of view as the book is a direct account of events relating to the authors life making it non fiction. Within a first person point of view the person writing the story is in the story. This is shown frequently by the use of I and me when referring to herself. The author discussed context towards her past within the introduction of the book allowing the reader to understand the narrative. 4y

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MissYaremcio Nicely done Nana! I loved the book and think it was so powerful! 6/6 4y

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Nanakofidarku

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America | Kekla Magoon, Jason Reynolds, Dhonielle Clayton, Tracey Baptiste, Brandy Colbert, Justina Ireland, Rita Williams-Garcia, Ren�e Watson, Lamar Giles, Coe Booth, Varian Johnson, Ibi Zoboi, Nic Stone, Tochi Onyebuchi, Liara Tamani, Jay Coles, Leah Henderson

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If your someone like me who thinks reading is a complete waste of time and just don‘t feel like acting finishing an entire book than this book is perfect for you. If your also someone who is interested in stories about black history and modern day micro racial agressions told be the point of view of teenagers than this book is perfect for you. Black enough is a collection of short stories written by 18 different authors outlining their ....

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Nanakofidarku Experiences and constant struggles associated being an African American teenager in America. The book outlines the constant struggle with the concept of “black identity” across America and the subjective Ness of the measure of how “black”one and how the concept of being black closely relates to gang culture. 4y

Nanakofidarku A reoccurring motif present within the collection of short stories is the constant reference to blackness and feeling “black enough”. Another reoccurring motif within the novel is the metaphor of being an “Oreo” which is a direct metaphor of the concept of “blackness”. In one of the stories for instance a young girl moved to Brooklyn, New York. (This story is based from the authors experience). As a young girl she enjoyed science fiction films 4y

Nanakofidarku ,disco music and John Stamos. During this time her idea of blackness was limited to what she had known prior in her traditions in Hati. It wasn‘t until she had been called “Oreo” and attended high school within America that her idea of blackness began to change. As she observed the trends and costing African AMERICAN you followed she began to associate “blackness” to hip hop culture. 4y

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Nanakofidarku The concepts of “being black enough” and “blackness” become apparent when she begins to question her identity as well as what it truly means to be black providing the inspiration to the other short stories. This motif is substantial through the collection of short stories as it provides the complete plot to all the short stories and the entire novel. The nature of the novel is the perpetuation of “blackness” being gang and hip hop culture related (edited) 4y

Nanakofidarku *****( the authors name is Ibi zoboi). If you like books that outline real life experience especially ones you can relate you than you will love this book 4y

MissYaremcio I'm adding this to my to read list! It looks incredibly powerful! Have you finished the book yet?! 6/6 4y

Nanakofidarku @MissYaremcio No. I‘ve read through 4 of the short stories. 4y

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