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How does Dee's decision to change her name display her inner conflict ?

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After attending College Dee has her personal rebirth where her African Heritage is, all of a sudden, important to her. Dee changes her name to Wangero in an attempt to connect with some vague assumptions of African heritage. Ironically she rejects her real heritage, that she shares with mother and sister, for an idealized heritage that she knows little about.

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