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Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
Maybe someday
49
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
47/100Critics
50/100Scholars
Author:
Morgan Jerkins
Publisher:
Harper
Date:
August 4, 2020
Journalist and essayist Jerkins journeys to discover her ancestral lineage. As she travels south, she learns the complexity of her genetic heritage, dating back 300 years, and peels back the layers of myths in Black culture.
What The Reviewers Say
... a mesmerizing reminder that this divide between Black and white is a false binary.
The text is timely, as people are increasingly looking to learn about race and the Black experience in the United States through books, amid calls for conversations on justice and equity sparked in part by protests about systemic racism.
... sensitive, insightful.
Recommend to readers seeking spiritually-informed black narratives or oral histories and fans of Jerkins’s first book; less useful for readers seeking factual histories of the Great Migration..
