After her father’s death Georgina unravels the truth about her parentage — and the racial identity she had been denied. She fled from England and the turmoil of her home-life to live in Black communities around the globe — the U.S., the U.K., Nicaragua, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and Morocco — and to explore her identity as a Black woman. She spoke with psychologists, sociologists, experts in genetic testing, and other individuals whose experiences of racial identity have been fraught or questioned to understand how we identify ourselves.
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