{"id":61520,"date":"2021-09-19T01:55:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T01:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61520"},"modified":"2021-09-19T01:55:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T01:55:36","slug":"a-family-story-as-complex-as-american-history-tracing-to-1820s-berlin-crossroads-in-ohio-michael-a-chaney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61520","title":{"rendered":"A family story as complex as American history, tracing to 1820s Berlin Crossroads in Ohio: Michael A. Chaney"},"content":{"rendered":"

A family story as complex as American history, tracing to 1820s Berlin Crossroads in Ohio: Michael A. Chaney<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Cleveland.com: Covering Northeast Ohio<\/a>
\n2020-07-03<\/p>\n

Michael A. Chaney<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of English
\nDartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nMichael A. Chaney<\/a>, an author and professor of English at Dartmouth, traces some of his roots to a storied African American community in Berlin Crossroads<\/a> in Ohio’s Appalachia<\/a>.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

HANOVER, New Hampshire<\/a> — As the celebration of this country\u2019s revolutionary independence<\/a> looms, I cannot help but reflect on my own ancestry and what it says about place and race, politics and perspective. A mixed-race Ohioan, I was born in Cuyahoga Falls<\/a> and raised in the Akron<\/a>\/Cleveland<\/a> area. Like most Ohioans, I am proud of our wooded forests, our first-rate colleges, our winning sports teams. I want to believe that if more people knew about Ohio\u2019s<\/a> Black and mixed-race histories, we would be cautiously optimistic to note those times when Black lives have mattered in Ohio \u2014 in the solemn presence of mourning those times when Black lives should have mattered more.<\/p>\n

This won\u2019t be a linear story. As with all history, including complicated family histories, and, particularly, family trees made more complicated by the intersection of different races, it moves from Akron to Germany<\/a> and back to Ohio, with some side branches that go back 200 years to a once-storied and now largely forgotten African American community in Ohio\u2019s Appalachia<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This won\u2019t be a linear story. As with all history, including complicated family histories, and, particularly, family trees made more complicated by the intersection of different races, it moves from Akron to Germany and back to Ohio, with some side branches that go back 200 years to a once-storied and now largely forgotten African American community in Ohio\u2019s Appalachia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,20],"tags":[31905,30633,31907,31906,31904,31903,2948,1625,11336,260],"class_list":["post-61520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-akron","tag-appalachia","tag-berlin-crossroads","tag-cleveland-heights","tag-cleveland-com","tag-cleveland-com-covering-northeast-ohio","tag-germany","tag-michael-a-chaney","tag-michael-chaney","tag-ohio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61520","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=61520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61521,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61520\/revisions\/61521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}