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Mama

by Terry McMillan, Mcmillan, Marjorie Johnson

Mildred Peacock, mother of five, black, and fed up with poverty and the jealous rampages of her husband, kicks him out to raise her kids on her own.

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African American familiesAfrican American womenAfrican AmericansFamilyFictionFamiliesEnglish fictionMichigan, fictionDetroit (mich.), fictionAfrican americans, fiction

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