Njeri Itabari, Author, Itabari Njeri, Author Vintage Books USA $12 (245p) ISBN 978-0-679-73242-6
Njeri describes growing up in 1950s Brooklyn and Harlem among African-American and West Indian kin and recalls the bigotry she faced when investigating her grandfather's death in an automobile accident involving a white driver. ``She is at her best...
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Itabari Njeri, Author, Atabari Njeri, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-395-77191-4
Herself of mixed African and Caribbean roots--her mother a Guyanese Jamaican American, her father a Georgia-born, African American philosopher and Marxist historian--Njeri, a Los Angeles Times reporter, insists that blacks as well as Latinos in the...
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Itabari Njeri, Author, Njeri Itabari, Author Crown Publishers $17.95 (246p) ISBN 978-0-8129-1805-2
Njeri grew up in Brooklyn and Harlem among African-American and West Indian kin. A reporter for the Los Angeles Times , she writes here of her childhood during the 1950s with her Harvard-educated father, a punishing alcoholic; her striving mother;...
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