her friends" (1175) to her home. It's clear she is ashamed of her family and her roots. Dee also changes her name to Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo. She "couldn't bear it any longer being named after the people who oppress me" (1176). By changing her name, she is further trying to distance herself from her negro status fixed unto her in the 1970s. In the
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