Ailey Pearl Garfield grows up navigating the tensions between her mother’s elite academic heritage and the rural Georgia roots of her father’s family. To understand her own identity, she unearths a multi-generational history involving the enslaved West Africans, Indigenous Creek peoples, and white Scottish settlers who populated the town of Chicasetta. The narrative utilizes historical archives and family oral traditions to trace how institutional systems and personal traumas shaped her ancestors' lives from the colonial era through the Civil Rights Movement and into the twentieth century.
Readers interested in the intersection of American genealogy and the long-term sociological effects of racial caste systems will find a detailed anatomical study of family legacy. The book provides an examination of how historical violence and systemic displacement influence modern behavioral patterns and domestic structures. You walk away with a specific understanding of how academic frameworks, such as the concept of Double Consciousness, manifest within the private lives and survival strategies of Black American women across several centuries.
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
