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Brown Girls reflects the complexities of American identity
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Geographical Magazine Writer s Reads: Elizabeth Miki Brina, author of Speak, Okinawa Written by Geographical 2021 Elizabeth Miki Brina is a teacher and author. Her debut book, Speak Okinawa, is out now. Here she shares some of the books that have inspired her perceptive worldview
The Woman Warrior: Memoir of a Girlhood Among Ghosts • Maxine Hong Kingston • 1976
Maxine Hong Kingston is magnificent as she captures the history and mythology of her ancestors from China, as well as the lives of her family of immigrants and Asian Americans.
Autobiography of My Mother • Jamaica Kincaid • 1996
With exquisite and inimitable prose, Jamaica Kincaid portrays the complicated, defiant, lonely yet resilient life of a woman in Dominica.
Ancestry travel on pause? These books will inspire your next trip. Raphael Kadushin © Photograph by NATALIJA GORMALOVA, AFP/Getty Images A young tourist watches fishing boats on the shores below Cape Coast Castle in Ghana. The white-washed fort was one of dozens studding the Atlantic coast where slaves were held before their journey to the New World.
Like many Americans, I never knew where I came from, with any real certainty. My grandparents had migrated, along with the great wave of persecuted East European Jews, in the early 20th century, so my dad could grow up in the transplanted shtetl of the Bronx, and my mother on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. But beyond my immediate family, any sense of a deeper heritage was a mystery until I discovered a whole lost world one afternoon, museum-hopping in Washington, D.C.
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