TY - BOOK ID - 77894851 TI - It's good to be Black PY - 2013 SN - 0809331233 1299183794 9780809331239 9780809331222 0809331225 PB - Carbondale DB - UniCat KW - African Americans KW - African American girls KW - Afro-Americans KW - Black Americans KW - Colored people (United States) KW - Negroes KW - Africans KW - Ethnology KW - Blacks KW - Afro-American girls KW - Girls, African American KW - Girls KW - Goodwin, Ruby Berkley KW - Childhood and youth. KW - Du Quoin (Ill.) KW - Du Quoin, Ill. KW - DuQuoin (Ill.) KW - Race relations. KW - Social life and customs. KW - Black people UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77894851 AB - From the preface by Carmen Kenya Wadley:"Is it good to be black? To Ruby Berkley Goodwin it was....The black she writes about has nothing to do with skin color, but it does have a great deal to do with self images, values, spiritual strength, and most of all love. Unlike the contradicting definitions of blackness we see reflected in today's crime statistics, movies, television, newspapers, political speeches, advertisements, and sociological reports, Ruby Berkley Goodwin's definition of blackness is simple and to the point: black is good. It's Good to be Black is more than the story (history) ER -