Forgive Your Mother? Memory, Redemption, and the Sense of an Ending
Homegoing exemplifies how the history of institutionalized racism scripts Black American lives like a preordained fate similar, but also crucially different, from a religious narrative structured around collective enslavement, emancipation, and redemption. 100 Yet its structural emplotment is impossible to undo through an individual liberation narrative, as in Kojo’s successful flight to the North, H’s […]
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