A tour-de-force collection of stories about the black experience, by award-winning, bestselling, and emerging African American YA authors.
Black is...two sisters navigating their relationship at summer camp in Portland, Oregon, as written by Renée Watson.
Black is…Jason Reynolds writing about three guys walking back from the community pool talking about nothing and everything.
Black is…Nic Stone’s bougie debutante dating a boy her momma would never approve of.
Black is…two girls kissing in Justina Ireland’s story set in Maryland.
Black is urban and rural, wealthy and poor, mixed race, immigrants, and more—because there are countless ways to be black enough.
Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, this is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it’s like to be young and black in America.
- ISBN10 0062698729
- ISBN13 9780062698728
- Publish Date 21 February 2019 (first published 8 January 2019)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 27 April 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Imprint Balzer and Bray
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 416
- Language English