![]() ![]() The center of Zuri’s home is the living room/bedroom that she shares with her four sisters. Pride is all about the worldview of this young black woman, Zuri. In retelling this story, she maintains the tale of romance, but she empowers a working-class girl with a very limited worldview and whose strong sense of pride in her home provides her with a sense of #blackgirlmagic it raises her above. Zoboi dares to rock Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice on its head while claiming space for people of color among the most classic of classics. She’s a high school junior who plans to go to college and come back home. But, Zuri plans for her world to never change. ![]() Zuri has been noticing subtle changes in her Bushwick as stores become more upscale and as store owners are more often white than black. Zuri Benitez and her Haitian-Dominican family live in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn. You could say they both appear quite prideful. ![]() Each is looking straight ahead, but neither one is looking at the other. The stunning endpages of Pride set the story by presenting Zuri and Darius facing each other. ![]()
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