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Jennifer Baszile

Jennifer Baszile received her B.A. from Columbia and her Ph.D. in American history from Princeton. She was the first black female professor to join Yale University's history department and has been named one of the "Thirty Leaders of the Future" by Ebony magazine. She lives in Connecticut.

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L.A. Watts Times, April 30, 2009
...UCLA. Led in their discussion by former Times columnist Erin Aubry Kaplan, the panel consisted of Lise Funderburg, Jennifer Baszile and Danzy Senna. Senna authored the 1998 national bestseller ?Caucasia,? winner of the American Library...
USA Today, February 23, 2009
...to the 2008 PBS series African American Lives. The Black Girl Next Door (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, $25) by Jennifer Baszile is a thoughtful memoir about coming of age in suburban California after the major battles of the civil rights movement were...
New York Times, February 6, 2009
...This week: Jennifer Baszile, author of the memoir The Black Girl Next Door; Motoko Rich with Notes From the Field; Dalia Sofer on a new Pakistani writer; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news...
Hartford Courant, February 1, 2009
...marriage. The book is part love letter and part examination of the anxieties that plagued this pioneering writer. Jennifer Baszile, the first black female professor in Yale University's history department, grew up in California in the 1970s and '80s. In...
International Herald Tribune, January 11, 2009
...The Black Girl Next Door A Memoir By Jennifer Baszile 310 pages. Touchstone Books. $25. Jennifer Baszile grew up in Palos Verdes Estates, an elite and nearly all-white suburb of Los Angeles in the 1970s and '80s, and she...
Los Angeles Times, January 9, 2009
...a book world cluttered with memoirs driven more by look-at-me indulgence than a need to say something significant, Jennifer Baszile's 'The Black Girl Next Door' stands out. Baszile is a Yale history professor who grew up black and upper middle class in...
Writing Time, May 6, 2009
...  Jennifer Baszile, author of the page turning memoir, The Black Girl Next Door , came to my advanced non-fiction class at UCLA Extension last week and gave a talk that was powerful...
WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show, April 10, 2009
...April 10, 2009 / Post-Civil Rights Memoir Post-Civil Rights Memoir Friday, April 10, 2009 Listen Add Comments [7] Jennifer Baszile , author of The Black Girl Next Door: A Memoir (Touchstone, 2009), tells of her post-segregation...
Musings of a Bookish Kitty, March 27, 2009
...Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages by Kristin Chenoweth The Black Girl Next Door by Jennifer Baszile Almost Home by Pam Jenoff The Blue Notebook by James A. Levine This week, Janet took the first sentence in 6 of my favorite books...you...
Ideas, February 7, 2009
...Books | This week in the Book Review : Jennifer Baszile, author of “The Black Girl Next Door,” a memoir of a family that seemed an embodiment of “The Cosby Show,” but whose life in a white suburb was far...
Paper Cuts, February 6, 2009
...This week: Jennifer Baszile, author of the memoir “The Black Girl Next Door”; Motoko Rich with Notes From the Field; Dalia Sofer on a new Pakistani writer; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news...
Book Review, February 6, 2009
...This week: Jennifer Baszile, author of the memoir "The Black Girl Next Door"; Motoko Rich with Notes From the Field; Dalia Sofer on a new Pakistani writer; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news...
African American Literary Review | BlogTalkRadio F, January 14, 2009
...a world that is totally foreign to you AND those who surround you, can be trying and stressful. Jennifer Baszile, author of the newly released "The Black Girl Next Door" discusses the challenges she and her family faced being the only African American...