Whiteness is not an ancestor : essays on life and lineage by white women
Iverson, Lisa B.2020
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Abstract: Using the lens of inherited trauma and family history, Whiteness Is Not an Ancestor offers a hopeful, humanizing path for dismantling whiteness. For over two decades, family constellations facilitator and therapist Lisa Iversen has been working with groups, including descendants of ancestors who have perpetrated harm or been victimized in circumstances of injustice. In this collection of essays, she brings together twelve white women who explore the role of whiteness in collective movements of immigration, colonialism, slavery, and war. Through genealogical research, family documents, and deep reflection, these writers from the US, Canada, and the UK disentangle themes of innocence, grief, race, privilege, and belonging in their families and ancestries. Each essayist shares moving stories and anecdotes from their life, adding historical and cultural context to current conversations about white women's role in creating and sustaining whiteness.
Main title:
Whiteness is not an ancestor : essays on life and lineage by white women / Lisa B. Iverson.
Author:
Iverson, Lisa B., author
Imprint:
Bellingham, WA : Center for Ancestral Blueprints Publishing, 2020
Collation:
xxix, 155 pages ; 23 cm
Contents:
Foreword to Whiteness is not an ancestor: essays on life and lineage by white women / Lisa IversenBloodlines: a legal lynching and a family's reckoning / Sonya LeaRoots, borders, and belonging / Karin KonstantynowiczIn the shadow of Mt. Evans: living in a lineage of genocide, white privilege, and intergenerational healing / Anne HaydenWhiteness in colonial America: my family's legacy / Summer StarrNot so nice: confessions of an "innocent" white woman / Kate Regan, PhDWarning: whiteness may be hazardous to your health / June BlueSpruceIt cannot be condoned: whiteness and the legacy of war / Sabine OlsenIn mountain light walking with my grandfather / Carole HarmonWeltschmerz / Christina GreeneĢWhite walking / Sharon HalfnightThe cuckoo that laid the golden egg: the legacy of Nazi gold in Switzerland / Una Suseli O'ConnellLeaving Mitzrayim / Pam Emerson.
ISBN:
9781735305028 (pbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
1196942
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