Sandra Shackelford

A Portrait of Grief and Courage (eBook, ePUB)

Hmong Oral Histories and Folktales
Übersetzer: Lor, Ma Lee

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A shadow in the dark corner of the room moved. Slowly, a woman walked toward us. Tears streamed down her face. She pointed toward me and spoke to May Lee in Hmong. This is what she said:

"Please give me the words to speak my grief."

When Sandra Shackelford heard this plea, she embarked on a decades-long project to preserve and dignify the loves, losses, and customs of the Hmong people who began immigrating to Green Bay, Wisconsin in the 1970s.

In this unique collection of interviews, photographs, and folktales, Shackelford- along with interpreter May Lee Lor and translator Ma Lee Lor- captures the words of Hmong people who fled their homes to escape The Secret War in Laos. Many trekked through jungles without food, water, or shelter. Many lost family members along the way. All struggled to survive and sustain their traditions. Intimate and compelling, this historic collection gives words to the grief Hmong refugees carried as they resettled in America- and the courage they found to persevere.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mimi & Rupert Books
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798985503159
• Artikelnr.: 70263114

Autorenporträt

Sandra Shackelford spent over a decade-from 1956 to 1967-working for civil and human rights in the Mississippi Delta while serving as a member of Pax Christi, a secular institute at St. Francis Information Center in Greenwood. She created a kindergarten based on the teaching methods of Maria Montessori and co-edited what became an early printed voice of the community's Black population. Titled The Center LIGHT, the weekly paper sought to fulfill its intention: "give people the light and they will find their way." One morning, the KKK showed its hatred by hurling a firebomb at the newspaper's office, the flames charring the office's white cement block exterior.Upon return to her birthplace, Green Bay, WI, Sandra worked as a journalist in the Fox Valley, after which she returned to college and finished her BA degree through the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay's returning adults program. Thereafter Sandra taught life-drawing and anatomy at UW-GB and St. Norbert College in De Pere, WI, and co-directed UW-GB's Summer Arts Program for adolescents and teens. She also served as a writing specialist at the College of the Menominee Nation and was the Integrated Arts Coordinator at Aldo Leopold school, where she used photography and writing as a means for students to integrate classroom learning with the world at large. As a member of the National Storytelling Network, she works with local writers, encouraging them to speak and write their truth.Sandra furthered her knowledge of the writing process by attending writing conferences and conducting workshops at both the National Story Circle Conference in Austin, TX and The UntitledTown Book and Author Festival in Green Bay.She is currently at work on her memoir.