{"id":19390,"date":"2011-12-30T20:36:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T20:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=19390"},"modified":"2011-12-30T20:36:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T20:36:21","slug":"my-confederate-kinfolk-a-twenty-first-century-freedwoman-discovers-her-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=19390","title":{"rendered":"My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-First Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perseusbooksgroup.com\/civitas\/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0465015743\" target=\"_blank\">My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-First Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perseusbooksgroup.com\/civitas\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Basic Civitas Books<\/a><br \/>\n2007-01-02<br \/>\n352 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9780465015740; ISBN-10: 0465015743<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thulanidavis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thulani Davis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perseusbooksgroup.com\/civitas\/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0465015743\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.perseusbooksgroup.com\/images\/detail\/0465015743.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Starting from a photograph and writings left by her grandmother, acclaimed African-American novelist Thulani Davis goes looking for the \u201cwhite folk\u201d in her family, a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scotch-Irish_American\" target=\"_blank\">Scots-Irish<\/a> family of cotton planters unknown to her-and uncovers a history far richer and stranger than she had ever imagined. Her journey challenges us to examine the origins of some of our most deeply ingrained notions about what makes a family black or white, and offers an immensely compelling, intellectually challenging alternative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-First Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots Basic Civitas Books 2007-01-02 352 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780465015740; ISBN-10: 0465015743 Thulani Davis Starting from a photograph and writings left by her grandmother, acclaimed African-American novelist Thulani Davis goes looking for the \u201cwhite folk\u201d in her family, a Scots-Irish family of cotton planters unknown to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,459,8,17,20],"tags":[8946,711],"class_list":["post-19390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-basic-civitas-books","tag-thulani-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}