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Slavery's Descendants : Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation by Jill Strauss; Shannon Lanier; A.B. Westrick; Grant Hayter-Menzies; Joseph Mcgill; R. Gregory Nokes; Antoinette Broussard; Catherine Sasanov; Leslie Stainton; Rodney G Williams; Eileen Jackson; Karen Branan; Stephanie Harp; Sharon Morgan; Thomas Norman DeWolf; Bill Sizemore; Karen Stewart-Ross; Sara Jenkins; David Terrett Beume; Debian Marty; Tammarrah Lee; Elissa Pearmain; Sarah Kohrs; Betty Kilby-Baldwin; Phoebe Kilby; Fabrice Guerrier; Dionne Ford is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Slavery's Descendants : Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation about?
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, cr
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jill Strauss; Shannon Lanier; A.B. Westrick; Grant Hayter-Menzies; Joseph Mcgill; R. Gregory Nokes; Antoinette Broussard; Catherine Sasanov; Leslie Stainton; Rodney G Williams; Eileen Jackson; Karen Branan; Stephanie Harp; Sharon Morgan; Thomas Norman DeWolf; Bill Sizemore; Karen Stewart-Ross; Sara Jenkins; David Terrett Beume; Debian Marty; Tammarrah Lee; Elissa Pearmain; Sarah Kohrs; Betty Kilby-Baldwin; Phoebe Kilby; Fabrice Guerrier; Dionne Ford
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781978800762
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Memoir, Social Science
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