Unloose My Heart: A Personal Reckoning with the Twisted Roots of My Southern Family Tree Herman-Giddens Marcia Edwina
Unloose My Heart: A Personal Reckoning with the Twisted Roots of My Southern Family Tree Herman-Giddens Marcia Edwina A deeply personal memoir that unearths a family history of racism, slaveholding,…
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Unloose My Heart: A Personal Reckoning with the Twisted Roots of My Southern Family Tree Herman-Giddens Marcia Edwina
A deeply personal memoir that unearths a family history of racism, slaveholding, and trauma as well as love and sparks of delightMarcia 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 system. In 1966, weary of Alabama's toxic culture, Marcia and her young family left Birmingham and built a life in North Carolina.Later in life, Herman-Giddens resumed a search to find out what she did not know about her family history. Marcia, a shy only child, struggled to fit in and understand this world, shadowed as it was by her mother's proud antebellum heritage.
Unloose My Heart interweaves the story of her youth and coming of age in Birmingham during the Civil Rights Movement together with this quest to understand exactly who and what her maternal ancestors were and her