Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Trade Cloth)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
304
Utgivningsdatum
2021-09-01
Förlag
Bloomsbury Publishing
Medarbetare
Stevenson, Bryan
Dimensioner
261 x 189 x 30 mm
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1121 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781635576597

Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South

av Winfred Rembert, Erin I Kelly
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2021-09-01
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"A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear." -Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative

Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager. He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent seven years on chain gangs. During that time he met the undaunted Patsy, who would become his wife. Years later, at the age of fifty-one and with Patsy's encouragement, he started drawing and painting scenes from his youth using leather tooling skills he learned in prison.

Chasing Me to My Grave presents Rembert's breathtaking body of work alongside his story, as told to Tufts Philosopher Erin I. Kelly. Rembert calls forth vibrant scenes of Black life on Cuthbert, Georgia's Hamilton Avenue, where he first glimpsed the possibility of a life outside the cotton field. As he pays tribute, exuberant and heartfelt, to Cuthbert's Black community and the people, including his wife Patsy, who helped him to find the courage to revisit a traumatic past, Rembert brings to life the promise and the danger of Civil Rights protest, the brutalities of incarceration, his search for his mother's love, and the epic bond he found with Patsy.

Vivid, confrontational, revelatory, and complex, Chasing Me to My Grave is a searing memoir in prose and paintings that celebrates Black life and summons readers to confront painful and urgent realities at the heart of American history and society.
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