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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsForeword: Coming to the Table - Lucian K. Truscott IVIntroduction - Dionne Ford and Jill StraussPart I Uncovering History1 President in the Family - Shannon Lanier2 So Many Names - A. B. Westrick3 The Will, the Woman, and the Archive - Catherine Sasanov4 Overcoming Amnesia: How I Learned the Forgotten History of Two Families Linked by Slavery - Bill Sizemore5 Oregon’s Slave History - R. Gregory Nokes 6 Seed of the Fancy Maid - Rodney WilliamsPart II Making Connections7 State Line - Antoinette Broussard8 The Plantation Cake - Leslie Stainton 9 Am I Black? - Eileen Jackson10 The Immeasurable Distance between Us - Thomas Norman DeWolf11 Making Connections - Karen Branan 12 A Millennial Facing the Legacies of Slavery - Fabrice GuerrierPart III Working toward Healing13 Standing on the Shoulders of My Ancestors - Tammarrah Lee14 So Close and So Far Away - Elisa D. Pearmain 15 Born Both Innocent and Accountable: A Moral Reckoning - Debian Marty16 The Terretts of Oakland Plantation: An Essay of Atonement - David Terrett Beumée17 Not a Wound Too Deep - Karen Stewart-Ross 18 To See/ The Blindness of Whiteness - Sara JenkinsPart IV Taking Action19 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-Menzies23 A Dream Deferred along Holman’s Creek- Sarah Kohrs24 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 StraussPostscript: From Branches to Roots - Dionne FordAcknowledgmentsBibliographyNotes on Contributors ...
