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Ma lineal : a memoir of race, activism, and queer family / Faith S. Holsaert.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holsaert, Faith S., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women civil rights workers--United States--History--20th century--Biography.
- Women civil rights workers.
- Sexual minority activists--United States--History--20th century--Biography.
- Sexual minority activists.
- Holsaert, Faith S.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (318 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- Through her childhood spent in 1940s New York being raised by two mothers, her work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the Civil Rights Movement, and raising her own children in the coalfields of West Virginia, Faith S. Holsaert has been defined by the intertwined forces of race, activism, and family. As a young woman on the front line of the Civil Rights Movement, she learned the power of contested narratives and came to understand her whiteness, her queer identity, and her stakes in overturning racism. Later in life, she confronted sexual abuse and mental illness across three generations of women in her family to find that these painful histories have played a significant role in the development of her identity as a woman, activist, and mother. Through a lifetime laid bare in prose and poetry, Holsaert beautifully quilts memoir, social history, and historic events into a gripping and inspirational narrative. This powerful and structurally innovative work lends new categories of meaning to those who would strive to find their place, hope, and sense of belonging in efforts to fight against systemic racism and lead lives characterized by openness and love.
- Contents:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Tell
- 1. Bedrock: Dreaming My Self
- How I Was Mothered
- Mother Ground
- Life with Fox
- Transition
- 2. Outcrop
- Harlem
- SNCC: Been Down into the South
- SNCC: New York Office
- New Mexico and Detroit
- West Virginia
- 3. Find a Home Place
- Sundered
- Layered, 1991-2009
- Nevertheless, We Mothered, 2009-2014
- Find a Home Place
- 4. The Practice of Mothers
- Showing Up, Autumn 2014
- Incised Lines
- Full Circumference, 2015
- Dissociations
- Sing
- Living With
- Coda: White Woman Reading Audre Lorde
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780814350805
- 0814350801
- OCLC:
- 1425812241
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