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What was the cultural legacy of enslaved Africans in the American South, and how has that legacy been handed through generations?
For author Deirdre Foreman, this question is a very personal one: in this book, she explores the cultural legacy of enslaved Africans in the American South through an ethno-autobiographical reflection on her own African-American identity and family heritage. Through storytelling and personal narratives, the author describes her family’s cultural practices and how they are directly rooted in those of the enslaved Africans on the southern plantations. Known as “cultural survivors,” enslaved Africans established cultural customs and norms out of resistance to the control of white slaveholders to maintain their independence and pride.
Ideal reading for students of Black studies, African American studies, Africana studies, and related courses, this autoethnography humanizes and personalizes concepts that are crucial to the understanding of Black culture and Black history.
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Content warning
- Foreword
- Introducing the editors
- Learning objectives
- 1 Introduction
- Some words about words
- Disability and identity
- Social and medical models of disability
- Disability discrimination
- Inspiration porn, micro-aggressions, and other issues
- LGBTQIA+ identity
- Intersection of LGBTQIA+ and disabled identity
- Coming out
- Representation
- Allies
- About privilege
- 2 Wayne Herbert
- Welcome to my world
- Wayne’s story
- Welcome to my world
- 3 Dr Wesley Lim
- Recalibrating the senses towards disabled movement
- 4 Kelly Vincent
- Kelly’s story – Dear younger Kelly…
- 5 Zoe Simmons
- Zoe’s story – Dear teenage Zoe
- 6 Dr Wenn Lawson
- Wenn’s story – A letter to my teenage self
- Becoming a teenager, or early adolescence
- The letter
- Wenn’s story – A letter to my teenage self
- 7 Empress Eyrie
- Empress’ story – Dear younger self
- 8 Emma Goodall
- Emma’s story
- 9 Freya Pinney
- Freya’s story – Hidden in plain sight
- Self-monitoring, hypervigilant, not trusting, and self-sacrificing
- Words for my younger self…
- Sexuality is different to sexual preference
- You can be friends with classmates or workmates but you have to make friends with them; it is not implied by the time you spend in the same place, and there is no formula for making friends.
- It is OK to let someone know you find them attractive or like them, even if they aren’t interested in you. You won’t suffer any consequences.
- Not everyone else is being honest about everything
- Spending money on yourself is not wasting money
- Not everyone will like you. Just like you don’t actually like everyone else.
- There is no innate, right way to be
- 10 Ainslee Hooper
- Ainslee’s story – From you to me and me to you
- 11 Jack Brady
- Jack’s story
- 12 Kat Reed
- Kat’s story
- 13 Margherita Coppolino
- Margherita’s story – The little book of life
- Introduction
- Early days
- Life in institutional care
- Discovering my family
- Adulthood: Employment
- Advocacy
- Activities and interests
- Discovering my culture
- Creating my identity
- Coming out
- Margherita’s story – The little book of life
- 14 Yenn Purkis
- Yenn’s story
- Reflections of Yenn at 15
- Socialists and the road to a desperate life
- Crime, drugs, and alcohol
- Mental illness
- Journey to success
- Unlikely and an anomaly
- Gender expression
- An advocate
- Identity – Autistic pride, queer pride
- One last thing
- Yenn’s story
- 15 Summary
- Notes
- Suggested discussion topics
- References
- Recommended further reading
- Index
Deirdre Foreman PhD is Adjunct Professor of Africana Studies and Social Science, and Associate Director of the Educational Opportunity Fund program at Ramapo College of New Jersey. An anti-racist trainer and diversity consultant, Foreman is also a visiting professor at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana; President of Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) Manhattan Branch; and a member of both the Association for the Study of the Worldwide Diaspora (ASWAD) and the Diopian Institute for Scholarly Advancement (DIOP).
What was the cultural legacy of enslaved Africans in the American South, and how has that legacy been handed through generations?
For author Deirdre Foreman, this question is a very personal one: in this book, she explores the cultural legacy of enslaved Africans in the American South through an ethno-autobiographical reflection on her own African-American identity and family heritage. Through storytelling and personal narratives, the author describes her family’s cultural practices and how they are directly rooted in those of the enslaved Africans on the southern plantations. Known as “cultural survivors,” enslaved Africans established cultural customs and norms out of resistance to the control of white slaveholders to maintain their independence and pride.
Ideal reading for students of Black studies, African American studies, Africana studies, and related courses, this autoethnography humanizes and personalizes concepts that are crucial to the understanding of Black culture and Black history.
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Content warning
- Foreword
- Introducing the editors
- Learning objectives
- 1 Introduction
- Some words about words
- Disability and identity
- Social and medical models of disability
- Disability discrimination
- Inspiration porn, micro-aggressions, and other issues
- LGBTQIA+ identity
- Intersection of LGBTQIA+ and disabled identity
- Coming out
- Representation
- Allies
- About privilege
- 2 Wayne Herbert
- Welcome to my world
- Wayne’s story
- Welcome to my world
- 3 Dr Wesley Lim
- Recalibrating the senses towards disabled movement
- 4 Kelly Vincent
- Kelly’s story – Dear younger Kelly…
- 5 Zoe Simmons
- Zoe’s story – Dear teenage Zoe
- 6 Dr Wenn Lawson
- Wenn’s story – A letter to my teenage self
- Becoming a teenager, or early adolescence
- The letter
- Wenn’s story – A letter to my teenage self
- 7 Empress Eyrie
- Empress’ story – Dear younger self
- 8 Emma Goodall
- Emma’s story
- 9 Freya Pinney
- Freya’s story – Hidden in plain sight
- Self-monitoring, hypervigilant, not trusting, and self-sacrificing
- Words for my younger self…
- Sexuality is different to sexual preference
- You can be friends with classmates or workmates but you have to make friends with them; it is not implied by the time you spend in the same place, and there is no formula for making friends.
- It is OK to let someone know you find them attractive or like them, even if they aren’t interested in you. You won’t suffer any consequences.
- Not everyone else is being honest about everything
- Spending money on yourself is not wasting money
- Not everyone will like you. Just like you don’t actually like everyone else.
- There is no innate, right way to be
- 10 Ainslee Hooper
- Ainslee’s story – From you to me and me to you
- 11 Jack Brady
- Jack’s story
- 12 Kat Reed
- Kat’s story
- 13 Margherita Coppolino
- Margherita’s story – The little book of life
- Introduction
- Early days
- Life in institutional care
- Discovering my family
- Adulthood: Employment
- Advocacy
- Activities and interests
- Discovering my culture
- Creating my identity
- Coming out
- Margherita’s story – The little book of life
- 14 Yenn Purkis
- Yenn’s story
- Reflections of Yenn at 15
- Socialists and the road to a desperate life
- Crime, drugs, and alcohol
- Mental illness
- Journey to success
- Unlikely and an anomaly
- Gender expression
- An advocate
- Identity – Autistic pride, queer pride
- One last thing
- Yenn’s story
- 15 Summary
- Notes
- Suggested discussion topics
- References
- Recommended further reading
- Index
Deirdre Foreman PhD is Adjunct Professor of Africana Studies and Social Science, and Associate Director of the Educational Opportunity Fund program at Ramapo College of New Jersey. An anti-racist trainer and diversity consultant, Foreman is also a visiting professor at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana; President of Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) Manhattan Branch; and a member of both the Association for the Study of the Worldwide Diaspora (ASWAD) and the Diopian Institute for Scholarly Advancement (DIOP).
