Migrations of the Heart: A Personal Odyssey
by Marita Golden
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Distinguished author and television executive Marita Golden writes movingly about her life -- first as a black activist in the sixties in her hometown Washington, D.C., then as a journalism student in New York. In those turbulent years, she gained a profound understanding of what it means to be black in America. While studying in America, she met Femi, an African man. They fell in love and she journeyed to Nigeria to become his wife. In Africa, plunged into a culture so very different from show more her own, but one she felt she should understand, Marita Golden learned about both her own new sprawling Nigerian family and Nigeria's large American community. But Femi, once her strength, began to insist she fit herself into the strict mold of his society and assume the submissive role of a Nigerian wife. In her new, strange surroundings, Marita Golden discovered that home is not simply a destination, but rather something you must carry always inside you. "A marvelous journey . . . powerful imagery . . . distinctly drawn characters come alive, events pulsate with energy." -- The Washington Post Book World From the Paperback edition. show lessTags
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Marita Golden is an award-winning author of more than a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction. She is the cofounder and president emeritus of the Hurston/Wright Foundation.
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- Canonical title
- Migrations of the Heart: A Personal Odyssey
- Alternate titles
- Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography
Classifications
- Genres
- Anthropology, Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 305.8 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Ethnic and national groups
- LCC
- F205 .N4 .G64 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history District of Columbia. Washington
- BISAC
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- English
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- ISBNs
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