What we’re reading now: THEY GOT DADDY: ONE FAMILY’S RECKONING WITH RACISM AND FAITH, by Sharon Tubbs. A multigenerational family story of the Black South, migration north, and the connections between historical traumas and daily life in the 21st century. Also about fighting and surviving…the various ways Black people got/get themselves through. The writer is a journalist, and the book uncovers her grandfather’s legal struggle in 1950s Alabama. It’s a well-told story, one that almost every Black family with roots in the US south has a version of — and still, as a nation, we don’t hear near enough of these narratives. On a related note: we need a WPA-style project that collects the stories of Black people who lived in the US in the 1930s-1960s — the years before the end of legal segregation. The grounds for reparations are wide and deep and much closer to our present day than slavery. For more info, or to order: https://iupress.org/9780253064462/they-got-daddy/ Photo credit: Heather Huzovic
The post Reading List: They Got Daddy appeared first on Veterans of Hope.
