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 About Trauma 

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

Time to Abolish Copyediting?

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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