![]() They are portrayed as places with few opportunities and little hope for prosperity. Much of the book is set in the bleak neighborhoods of Mattawan and Kalamazoo, Michigan. These women were young wives and mothers who were beaten, sometimes raped, and often abandoned. Her portrayals of others are provocative and unvarnished, including those of her mother, Velma, and her aunts. Her work is keen and insightful as it covers her African, Indigenous, and white roots and the challenges and pride that they brought. It’s a dark legacy that shattered and, in some instances, ended lives.īuchanan was raised as a black woman. ![]() ![]() In her memoir Black Indian, Shonda Buchanan researches four generations of her family to uncover the brutalities that its women suffered from their husbands, boyfriends, and parents. Wayne State University Press ( Aug 26, 2019) ![]()
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