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"Raised in sleepy English suburbia, Georgina Lawton was no stranger to homogeneity. Her parents were white; her friends were white; there was no reason for her to think she was any different. But over time her brown skin and dark, kinky hair frequently made her a target of prejudice. In Georgina's insistently color-blind household, with no acknowledgement of her difference or access to black culture, she lacked the coordinates to make sense of who she was. It was only after her father's death that Georgina began to unravel the truth about her parentage--and the racial identity that she had…
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7 editions- Audiobook · English · 2021HarperCollins B and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pages · 9781799949473
- Audiobook · English · 2021HarperCollins B and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pages · 9781799949480
- Paperback · English · 2021Harper Perennial · 304 pages · 9780063009486
- Hardcover · English · 2020Sphere · 320 pages · 9780751579383
- Other · English · 2022Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 272 pages · 9780751579376
- Other · English · 2021Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 272 pages · 9780751584424
Blacks, race identityIdentity (psychology)Racially mixed peopleWomen, biographyFamilyBlack peopleRace identitySocial conditions






