Black Indian, searing and raw, is Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and
Alice Walker's The Color Purple meets Leslie Marmon Silko's
Ceremony-only, this isn't fiction. Beautifully rendered and
rippling with family dysfunction, secrets, deaths, drunks, and old
resentments, Shonda Buchanan's memoir is an inspiring story that
explores her family's legacy of being African Americans with
American Indian roots and how they dealt with not just society's
ostracization but the consequences of this dual inheritance.
Buchanan was raised as a Black woman, who grew up hearing cherished
stories of her multi-racial heritage, while simultaneously
suffering from everything she (and the rest of her family) didn't
know. Tracing the arduous migration of Mixed Bloods, or Free People
of Color, from the Southeast to the Midwest, Buchanan tells the
story of her Michigan tribe-a comedic yet manically depressed
family of fierce women, who were everything from caretakers and
cornbread makers to poets and witches, and men who were either
ignored, protected, imprisoned, or maimed-and how their lives
collided over love, failure, fights, and prayer despite a stacked
deck of challenges, including addiction and abuse. Ultimately,
Buchanan's nomadic people endured a collective identity crisis
after years of constantly straddling two, then three, races. The
physical, spiritual, and emotional displacement of American Indians
who met and married Mixed or Black slaves and indentured servants
at America's early crossroads is where this powerful journey
begins. Black Indian doesn't have answers, nor does it aim to
represent every American's multi-ethnic experience. Instead, it
digs as far down into this one family's history as it can
go-sometimes, with a bit of discomfort. But every family has its
own truth, and Buchanan's search for hers will resonate in anyone
who has wondered ""maybe there's more than what I'm being told.
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