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Follows the story of author Jean Alicia Elster's maternal grandmother, Dorothy May Jackson. Through three successive generations of African-American women, Elster intertwines the fictionalized adaptations of the defining periods and challenges-race relations, miscegenation, sexual assault, and class divisions-in her family's history.

How It Happens

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    A Paperback / softback by Jean Alicia Elster

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      Publisher: Wayne State University Press
      Publication Date: 30/09/2021
      ISBN13: 9780814348697, 978-0814348697
      ISBN10: 0814348696

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Follows the story of author Jean Alicia Elster's maternal grandmother, Dorothy May Jackson. Through three successive generations of African-American women, Elster intertwines the fictionalized adaptations of the defining periods and challenges-race relations, miscegenation, sexual assault, and class divisions-in her family's history.

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