Mother of Orphans: The True and Curious Story of Irish Alice, a Colored Man's Widow
Autor Dedria Humphries Barkeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 oct 2020
Mother of Orphans is the compelling true story of Alice, an Irish-American woman who defied rigid social structures to form a family with a black man in Ohio in 1899. Alice and her husband had three children together, but after his death in 1912, Alice mysteriously surrendered her children to an orphanage. One hundred years later, her great-grand daughter, Dedria Humphries Barker, went in search of the reasons behind this mysterious abandonment, hoping in the process to resolve aspects of her own conflicts with American racial segregation and conflict.
This book is the fruit of Barker’s quest. In it, she turns to memoir, biography, historical research, and photographs to unearth the fascinating history of a multiracial community in the Ohio River Valley during the early twentieth century. Barker tells this story from multiple vantage points, frequently switching among points of view to construct a fragmented and comprehensive perspective of the past intercut with glimpses of the present. The result is a haunting, introspective meditation on race and family ties. Part personal journey, part cultural biography, Mother of Orphans examines a little-known piece of this country’s past: interracial families that survived and prevailed despite Jim Crow laws, including those prohibiting mixed-race marriage. In lyrical, evocative prose, this extraordinary book ultimately leaves us hopeful about the world as our children might see it.
This book is the fruit of Barker’s quest. In it, she turns to memoir, biography, historical research, and photographs to unearth the fascinating history of a multiracial community in the Ohio River Valley during the early twentieth century. Barker tells this story from multiple vantage points, frequently switching among points of view to construct a fragmented and comprehensive perspective of the past intercut with glimpses of the present. The result is a haunting, introspective meditation on race and family ties. Part personal journey, part cultural biography, Mother of Orphans examines a little-known piece of this country’s past: interracial families that survived and prevailed despite Jim Crow laws, including those prohibiting mixed-race marriage. In lyrical, evocative prose, this extraordinary book ultimately leaves us hopeful about the world as our children might see it.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781940939780
ISBN-10: 194093978X
Pagini: 250
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: 2Leaf Press
Colecția 2Leaf Press
ISBN-10: 194093978X
Pagini: 250
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: 2Leaf Press
Colecția 2Leaf Press
Notă biografică
Dedria Humphries Barker is a writer, journalist, and teacher living in Michigan.