Freeney Harding Rosemarie Freeney Harding

Remnants (eBook, PDF)

A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering

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Produktbeschreibung

An activist influential in the civil rights movement, Rosemarie Freeney Harding's spirituality blended many traditions, including southern African American mysticism, Anabaptist Christianity, Tibetan Buddhism, and Afro-Brazilian Candomble. Remnants, a multigenre memoir, demonstrates how Freeney Harding's spiritual life and social justice activism were integral to the instincts of mothering, healing, and community-building. Following Freeney Harding's death in 2004, her daughter Rachel finished this decade-long collaboration, using recorded interviews, memories of her mother, and her mother's journal entries, fiction, and previously published essays.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822375586
• Artikelnr.: 54782044

Autorenporträt

Rosemarie Freeney Harding (1930–2004) was an organizer, teacher, social worker, and cofounder of Mennonite House, an early integrated community center in Atlanta. She also cofounded the Veterans of Hope Project at the Iliff School of Theology. Rachel Elizabeth Harding, daughter of Rosemarie Freeney Harding and Vincent Harding, is Associate Professor of Indigenous Spiritual Traditions in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Colorado, Denver, and author of A Refuge in Thunder: CandomblÉ and Alternative Spaces of Blackness.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Daughter's PrÉcis / Rachel E. Harding  ix
1. (the light)  1
I. Ground  5
2. Rye's Rites (poem)  7
3. Grandma Rye  9
4. There Was a Tree in Starkville . . .  15
5. Daddy's Mark  21
6. Joe Daniels: Getting Unruly  24
7. The Side of the Road  29
8. Papa's Girl  32
II. North  41
9. Snow and Spring in Woodlawn  43
10. Shirley Darden  52
11. Brother Bud's Death  54
12. Death, Dreams, and Secrecy: Things We Carried  57
13. Season  63
14. Elegant Cousins and Original Beauty  66
15. Warmth  71
16. Altgeld Gardens  75
17. Hot Rolls (short fiction)  82
18. Looking for Work  92
19. The Nursing Test  96
20.  In Loco Parentis (short fiction)  97
21. Mama Freeney and the Haints  107
22. Height  113
III. South  115
23. Hospitality, Haints, and Healing: African American Indigenous Religion
and Activism  117
24. Mennonite House in Atlanta  127
25. The Next-Door Neighbor  137
26. Traveling for the Movement  140
27. Koinonia Farm: Cultivating Conviction  144
28. A Radical Compassion: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Clarence Jordan, and
Marion King-Jackson  155
29. A Song in the Time of Dying: A Memory of Bernice Johnson Reagon  163
30. The Blood House (a story outline)  165
31. Spirit and Struggle: The Mysticism of the Movement  168
IV. The Dharamsala Notebook  179
32. Sunrise after Delhi (poem)  181
33. The Dharamsala Notebook I  182
34. The Dharamsala Notebook II  194
V. Bunting 199
35. The Bunting  201
36. The Workshops and Retreats: Ritual, Remembering, and Medicine  217
VI. The Pachamama Circle  227
37. Pachamama Circle I: Rachel's Dream  229
38. Pachamama Circle II: Sue Bailey Thurman and the Harriets  231
39. Pachamama Circle III: A Choreography of Mothering  237
40. Mama and the Gods  241
AfterWords  243
41. Fugida: Poem for OyÁ  245
42. Class Visits: Love, White Southerners, and Black Exceptionalism  247
43. A Little Wind  265
44. (the Call)  268
Appendix: Rosemarie's Genealogies  271
Acknowledgments  283
Index  287