Unloose My Heart : A Personal Reckoning with the Twisted Roots of My Southern Family Tree /

"A deeply personal memoir that unearths a family history of racism, slaveholding, and trauma as well as love and sparks of delight. Marcia Herman's family moved to Birmingham in 1946, when she was five years old, and settled in the steel-making city dense with smog and a rigid apartheid sy...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Herman-Giddens, Marcia Edwina, 1941- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2023]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
McAlpin, Robert, > -1852 > Family.
Herman-Giddens, Marcia Edwina, > 1941- > Family.
Herman-Giddens, Marcia Edwina, > 1941-
Women, White.
Slaveholders.
Race relations.
Manners and customs.
Families.
Civil rights movements.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
Slaveholders > Southern States > Biography.
Civil rights movements > Alabama > Birmingham > History > 20th century.
Women, White > Alabama > Birmingham > Biography.
Southern States.
Alabama > Birmingham.
Birmingham (Ala.) > Biography.
Birmingham (Ala.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Birmingham (Ala.) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Early childhood
  • A hybrid self
  • Moving to Birmingham
  • Searching for Jesse Robinson
  • The McAlpins explained
  • Summers north
  • Summers south
  • Harmony Hall, the Richardsons, and turpentine
  • Coming of age
  • The Brooke Hill School for Girls and Ramsay High School
  • College and marriage, 1960
  • "Bombingham"
  • Back to Birmingham, 1961
  • Birmingham, 1962
  • Birmingham explodes, 1963
  • Birmingham, Tuskegee Institute, and Project CAUSE, 1964
  • Tuskegee again and the Concerned White Citizens March, 1965
  • Burrowing into cotton
  • Leaving Birmingham, 1966
  • At the end
  • Afterword: shame, hope, and discoveries.

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