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Posted on August 31, 2016 September 28, 2018

How My White Mother Helped Me Find My Blackness

Ijeoma Oluo
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Ijeoma Oluo
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lust-liaisons, memoir, mixed-race, motherhood, mothers-day

Black History Month, the Olympics, Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday, Kwanzaa, Nigerian Independence Day — my mother looked forward to these days like they were Christmas.

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