![]() ![]() And finally, we land in Los Angeles, where Jerkins’s research culminates in a thoughtful and insightful examination of what it means to be Black in the United States. From there, we travel to Oklahoma where Jerkins explores connections between Native Americans and African Americans, searching for information about the claims in her family of Native American ancestry. In both places, she learns much about her mother’s and father’s families. Jerkens’s journey takes us first to the Lowcountry of South Carolina and Georgia, home of the Gullah Geechee people, and then to Louisiana and its Creole people. As she learns more about where and whom she came from, she confronts her image of herself and grapples with some of the truths she finds. This fascinating ethnography leads Jerkins down paths she anticipated and, perhaps most interestingly, down unexpected ones. “In Wandering in Strange Lands, Morgan Jerkins brings us along on her journey to learn about her ancestors and herself. ![]()
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