To free the captives: a plea for the American soul
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In 2020, heartsick from constant assaults on Black life, Tracy K. Smith found herself soul-searching and digging into the historical archive for help navigating the “din of human division and strife.” With lyricism and urgency, Smith draws on several avenues of thinking—personal, documentary, and spiritual—to understand who we are as a nation and what we might hope to mean to one another. This book touches down in Sunflower, Alabama, the red-dirt town where Smith’s father’s family comes from, and where her grandfather returned after World War I with a hero’s record but difficult prospects as a Black man. Smith considers his life and the life of her father through the lens of history. Hoping to connect with their strength and continuance, she assembles a new terminology of American life. Bearing courageous witness to the terms of Freedom afforded her as a Black woman, a mother, and an educator in the twenty-first century,Smith etches a portrait of where we find ourselves four hundred years into the American experiment. Weaving in an account of her growing spiritual practice, she argues that the soul is not merely a private site of respite or transcendence, but a tool forfulfilling our duties to each other, and a sounding board for our most pressing collective questions: Where are we going as a nation? Where have we been?
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African American Nonfiction
African Americans
African Americans -- History
African Americans -- Social conditions
African American women authors
African American women authors -- Biography
Biography & Autobiography
History
Nonfiction
Race relations
Smith, Tracy K
Social conditions
Sociology
United States -- Race relations
African Americans
African Americans -- History
African Americans -- Social conditions
African American women authors
African American women authors -- Biography
Biography & Autobiography
History
Nonfiction
Race relations
Smith, Tracy K
Social conditions
Sociology
United States -- Race relations
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