Golden, Marita

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Marita Golden writes both fiction and nonfiction about African-Americans in light of single motherhood, racial violence, colorism, and the Great Migration. She offers penetrating insight into the African-American middle class and its relationship to white culture. Golden also illuminates the struggle to escape the Jim Crow South, poverty, and racial violence, often by following the long-term travails of a single fictional family as it migrates northward. In both her character-driven fiction and her revealing nonfiction, her prose is charming, insightful, and disarmingly honest. Start with: Long Distance Life (Fiction); Don't Play in the Sun (Nonfiction)
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  • African American
  • American
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Golden, Marita
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Marita Golden writes both fiction and nonfiction about African-Americans in light of single motherhood, racial violence, colorism, and the Great Migration. She offers penetrating insight into the African-American middle class and its relationship to white culture. Golden also illuminates the struggle to escape the Jim Crow South, poverty, and racial violence, often by following the long-term travails of a single fictional family as it migrates northward. In both her character-driven fiction and her revealing nonfiction, her prose is charming, insightful, and disarmingly honest. Start with: Long Distance Life (Fiction); Don't Play in the Sun (Nonfiction)
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Female
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  • African American
  • American
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