A review by bluebirdsongs
Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins

challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

A really powerful look at how the last half-millennium of systemic racism on America's shores has excluded so much of black history from the "official record". Using the threads in her family's oral histories as a starting off point, researcher Morgan Jerkins explores the gaps in where she and others like her came from and unburies a tapestry of interconnectivity that centuries of exclusion and oppression tried to discredit and erase. But those stories live on as her people live on, and those narratives have always needed to be heard and respected.