📚 Bookish Thoughts 💭
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Engrossing • Conversational • Thought Provoking
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💬 “When Black people let DNA tests take precedence over their family stories, as I did, they reinforce narrow, racist misconceptions about blood purity and authenticity.”
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“People’s assumptions are not only wrong, but dangerous too. When people assume, they inadvertently erase others’ identities.”
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“Reconsideration is what history is all about; history doesn’t care what you feel. I had to be OK with being uncomfortable with whatever I would find out about my family.”
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📚 Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins
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❓Have your family ever said you had Cherokee in your lineage?
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💡 Mine too. Sadly, DNA tests say otherwise. This book has definitely given me the encouragement to dig a little deeper.
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❤️ This was my first book by this author as well as peek in the topic of tracing roots. This was definitely a smooth flowing book. It was very consuming and read like a thriller. I was holding my breath in anticipation of discovering where this journey would go next. I was completely invested in seeing the end and could not focus on anything else.
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💔 The ending was sweet but still not completely satisfying and there were a few dead ends. There is definitely room to continue expansion on this research.
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✨ Recommendations: Everyone, but especially fans of the author.
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💋 xoxo,
Kat
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P.S. Now it’s time for my obligatory hashtag rant! 🙌🏾 Let’s all try to read more #Blackliterature because #Blackbooksmatter & #Blackstorieshavepower ✊🏾 ✨ Today is the Bookstagram Tour Stop @harperbooks ✨ Shoutout to @_morganjerkins & #Blackbookstagram 🤜🏾🤛🏾 *Fist Bump* You already know #Representationmatters This review is #Ownvoices Whoop! Whoop! 🤗 Like, Comment, Share to #AmplifyBlackvoices & #AmplifyMelanatedVoices 👍🏾 Sincerely, #BlackGirlReading 📚
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Engrossing • Conversational • Thought Provoking
⠀
💬 “When Black people let DNA tests take precedence over their family stories, as I did, they reinforce narrow, racist misconceptions about blood purity and authenticity.”
⠀
“People’s assumptions are not only wrong, but dangerous too. When people assume, they inadvertently erase others’ identities.”
⠀
“Reconsideration is what history is all about; history doesn’t care what you feel. I had to be OK with being uncomfortable with whatever I would find out about my family.”
⠀
📚 Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins
⠀
❓Have your family ever said you had Cherokee in your lineage?
⠀
💡 Mine too. Sadly, DNA tests say otherwise. This book has definitely given me the encouragement to dig a little deeper.
⠀
❤️ This was my first book by this author as well as peek in the topic of tracing roots. This was definitely a smooth flowing book. It was very consuming and read like a thriller. I was holding my breath in anticipation of discovering where this journey would go next. I was completely invested in seeing the end and could not focus on anything else.
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💔 The ending was sweet but still not completely satisfying and there were a few dead ends. There is definitely room to continue expansion on this research.
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✨ Recommendations: Everyone, but especially fans of the author.
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⠀
💋 xoxo,
Kat
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P.S. Now it’s time for my obligatory hashtag rant! 🙌🏾 Let’s all try to read more #Blackliterature because #Blackbooksmatter & #Blackstorieshavepower ✊🏾 ✨ Today is the Bookstagram Tour Stop @harperbooks ✨ Shoutout to @_morganjerkins & #Blackbookstagram 🤜🏾🤛🏾 *Fist Bump* You already know #Representationmatters This review is #Ownvoices Whoop! Whoop! 🤗 Like, Comment, Share to #AmplifyBlackvoices & #AmplifyMelanatedVoices 👍🏾 Sincerely, #BlackGirlReading 📚
