Slavery's descendants : shared legacies of race and reconciliation / edited by Dionne Ford and Jill Strauss ; foreword by Lucian K. Truscott IV.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ford, Dionne, 1969- editor.

Stainton, Leslie.

Strauss, Jill, 1965- editor.

Truscott, Lucian K., 1947- writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans.

Slavery--United States--Psychological aspects.

Slavery.

Racism--United States--History.

Racism.

Enslaved persons--United States--Social conditions.

Enslaved persons.

Slaveholders--United States--History.

Slaveholders.

African American families.

African Americans--Biography.

White people--United States--Biography.

White people.

Reconciliation--Social aspects--United States.

Reconciliation.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 262 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

President in the family / by Shannon Lanier

So many names / by A.B. Westrick

The will, the woman, and the archive / by Catherine Sasanov

Overcoming amnesia: how I learned the forgotten history of two families

Linked by slavery / by Bill Sizemore

Oregon's slave history / by R. Gregory Nokes

Seed of the fancy maid / by Rodney Williams

State line / by Antoinette Broussard

The plantation cake / by Leslie Stainton

Am I black / by Eileen Jackson

The immeasurable distance between us / by Thomas Norman DeWolf

Making connections / by Karen Branan

A millennial facing the legacies of slavery / by Fabrice Guerrier

Standing on the shoulders of my ancestors / by Tammarrah Lee

So close and so far away / by Elisa D. Pearmain

Born both innocent and accountable: a moral reckoning / by Debian Marty

The Terretts of Oakland Plantation: an essay of atonement / by David Terrett Beumée

Not a wound too deep / by Karen Stewart-Ross

To see / by Sara Jenkins

Digging up the woodpile / by Sharon Leslie Morgan

On being involved / by Stephanie Harp

Changing the narrative / by Joseph McGill

Tangled vines: a bloodline shaped by slavery / by Grant Hayter-Menzies

A dream deferred along Holman's Creek / by Sarah Kohrs

The tale of two sisters / by Betty Kilby Baldwin and Phoebe Kilby.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-238) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

1-9788-0080-0

OCLC:

1124761639