Slavery's Descendants (eBook, ePUB)

Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation
Redaktion: Jill Strauss, Strauss; Dionne Ford, Ford

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Race remains a potent and divisive force in our society. Whether it is the shooting of minority people by the police, the mass incarceration of people of color, or the recent KKK rallies that have been in the news, it is clear that the scars from the United States histories of slavery and racial discrimination run too deep to simply be ignored. But what are the most productive ways to deal with the toxic and torturous legacies of American racism?Slavery s Descendants brings together contributors from a variety of racial backgrounds, all members or associates of a national racial reconciliation organization called Coming to the Table, to tell their stories of dealing with America s racial past through their experiences and their family histories. Some are descendants of slaveholders, some are descendants of the enslaved, and many are descendants of both slaveholders and slaves. What they all have in common is a commitment toward collective introspection, and a willingness to think critically about how the nation s histories of oppression continue to ripple into the present, affecting us all.The stories in Slavery s Descendants deal with harrowing topics rape, lynching, cruelty, shame but they also describe acts of generosity, gratitude, and love. Together, they help us confront the legacy of slavery to reclaim a more complete picture of U.S. history, one cousin at a time. Funding for the production of this book was provided by Furthermore, a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund (https://www.furthermore.org).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978800786
• Artikelnr.: 72346064

Autorenporträt

Jill Strauss teaches conflict resolution at Borough of Manhattan Community College, The City University of New York.  Dionne Ford is the author of Finding Josephine. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, More, LitHub, Rumpus, and Ebony, and has won awards from the National Association of Black Journalists and the Newswomens’ Club of New York.   

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Foreword: Coming to the Table - Lucian K. Truscott IV
Introduction - Dionne Ford and Jill Strauss
Part I   Uncovering History
1          President in the Family - Shannon Lanier
2          So Many Names - A. B. Westrick
3          The Will, the Woman, and the Archive - Catherine Sasanov
4          Overcoming Amnesia: How I Learned the Forgotten History of Two
Families Linked by Slavery - Bill Sizemore
5          Oregon’s Slave History - R. Gregory Nokes 
6          Seed of the Fancy Maid - Rodney Williams
Part II  Making Connections
7          State Line - Antoinette Broussard
8          The Plantation Cake - Leslie Stainton
9          Am I Black? - Eileen Jackson
10        The Immeasurable Distance between Us - Thomas Norman DeWolf
11        Making Connections - Karen Branan
12        A Millennial Facing the Legacies of Slavery - Fabrice Guerrier
Part III Working toward Healing
13        Standing on the Shoulders of My Ancestors - Tammarrah Lee
14        So Close and So Far Away - Elisa D. Pearmain
15        Born Both Innocent and Accountable: A Moral Reckoning - Debian
Marty
16        The Terretts of Oakland Plantation: An Essay of Atonement - David
Terrett Beumée
17        Not a Wound Too Deep - Karen Stewart-Ross
18        To See/ The Blindness of Whiteness - Sara Jenkins
Part IV Taking Action
19        Digging Up the Woodpile - Sharon Leslie Morgan
20        On Being Involved- Stephanie Harp
21        Changing the Narrative- Joseph McGill
22        Tangled Vines: A Bloodline Shaped by Slavery - Grant
Hayter-Menzies
23        A Dream Deferred along Holman’s Creek- Sarah Kohrs
24        The Tale of Two Sisters - Betty Kilby Baldwin and Phoebe Kilby  
Afterword: What a Legacy of Slavery and Racism Has to Do with Me - Jill
Strauss
Postscript: From Branches to Roots - Dionne Ford
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors