{"id":62072,"date":"2021-11-03T21:28:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T21:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62072"},"modified":"2021-11-03T21:57:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T21:57:48","slug":"descent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62072","title":{"rendered":"Descent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Descent<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Tarpaulin Sky Press<\/a>
\n2020-06-02
\n120 pages
\n6 x 0.4 x 9 inches
\nPaperback ISBN: 9781939460219<\/p>\n

Lauren Russell<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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In 2013, poet Lauren Russell acquired a copy of the diary of her great-great-grandfather, Robert Wallace Hubert,<\/a> a Captain in the Confederate Army<\/a>. After his return from the Civil War<\/a>, he fathered twenty children by three of his former slaves. One of those children was the poet\u2019s great-grandmother. Through several years of research, Russell would seek the words to fill the diary\u2019s omissions and to imagine the voice of her great-great-grandmother, Peggy Hubert, a black woman silenced by history. The result is a hybrid work of verse, prose, images and documents that traverses centuries as the past bleeds into the present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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