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Immigration, Race and Hair, Through Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie’s Eyes

From the Austrian-Jewish Lower East Side in Henry Roth’s “Call It Sleep,” to the Norwegian Nebraska plains in Willa Cather’s “My Antonia” to Dominican New Jersey in Junot Diaz’s “The Brief, Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao,” the immigrant experience  has long been part and parcel of the American literary tradition. “Americanah,” the  new novel by celebrated author […]