on ancestor veneration, whiteness, & creativity: maud newton in conversation with jeanna kadlec
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Maud Newton weaves many subjects in her hybrid memoir Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation, which is a heavily researched family history, a searing indictment of whiteness, and a call to action. Under her microscopic lens, no subject is safe: not her ancestors who enslaved people, not DNA kits and Ancestry.com, not her puritanical father or her mother who started a church in their living room.
on ancestor veneration, whiteness, & creativity: maud newton in conversation with jeanna kadlec
on ancestor veneration, whiteness, …
on ancestor veneration, whiteness, & creativity: maud newton in conversation with jeanna kadlec
Maud Newton weaves many subjects in her hybrid memoir Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation, which is a heavily researched family history, a searing indictment of whiteness, and a call to action. Under her microscopic lens, no subject is safe: not her ancestors who enslaved people, not DNA kits and Ancestry.com, not her puritanical father or her mother who started a church in their living room.