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    "description": "<p><em>White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing</em><span>&nbsp;is the story of Gail Lukasik's mother's \"passing\", Gail's struggle with the shame of her mother&rsquo;s choice, and her subsequent journey of self-discovery and redemption.</span><br /><br /><span>In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her African-American mother&rsquo;s decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness.</span><br /><br /><span>Haunted by her mother's fear and shame, Gail embarks on a quest to uncover her mother's racial lineage, tracing her family back to eighteenth-century colonial Louisiana. In coming to terms with her decision to publicly out her mother, Gail changed how she looks at race and heritage.</span></p>",
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