Writing About Family History: Resources
(*For genealogy resources formerly listed here, please find them now on the Coming to the Table site)
The Language We Writers Use Matters (many resources embedded in this document)
The Importance of Oral History in Tracing African American Lineage
Dionne Ford’s memior, Go Back And Get It; A Memior of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing
Bernice Bennett’s podcast about the importance of historical context
Writing and Publishing Black Women’s Biography: A Writing Resource Guide
Behind and Beyond Biography: Writing Black Women’s Lives and Thoughts
The Five C’s of Historical Thinking
Perhapsing: The Use of Speculation in Creative Non-Fiction
Beyond Perhapsing: “Split-Toning” Techniques for Speculation in Non-Fiction
Shifting Borders: Race, Class, and Speculative Placemaking
Saidya Hartman’s Venus in Two Acts
The Limits of Perception: Trust Techniques in Non-Fiction
On Whiteness and the Racial Imaginary
What Stories are Appropriate for White Enslaver Descendants to Tell? — an LD Writers’ Pod Gathering discussion (2023)
Healing Histories: Can Enslaver Descendants Tell Their Ancestral Stories Without Causing Further Harm? A BitterSweet post by Leslie Stainton
27 Actions Descendants of Enslaver Families Can Take
Mapping the Journey of Family History Research — a Linked Descendants’ presentation
How Reseraching Family History Can Be So Emotional — a CTTT Learning Series Session (2020)
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