University Professor and Administrator the author of five scholarly books, has returned to her roots in writing this insightful and entertaining memoir. Her focus is on her childhood and teenage years growing up in the segregated South in Georgia and Florida.
GIRLCHILD is a poignant memoir that captures the innocence and insight of a Black girl growing up in the American South during segregation. Through vivid storytelling, Audrey recalls childhood moments that were both ordinary and extraordinary—filled with laughter, heartbreak, questions, and quiet triumphs.
The Author, Audrey T McCluskey, is Professor Emerita of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington where she directed the internationally acclaimed, Black Film Center & Archive among other administrative duties and taught both graduate and undergraduate courses on race, gender, education and film studies.
“[An] extraordinary glimpse of a girl’s maturation in Black communities… It is evocative, educational, and insightful….”
“This memoir takes you into the Jim Crow South of her childhood with a clear-eyed perspective…teeming with … Black joy and learned truths….”
