Sharon Tubbs

They Got Daddy

One Family's Reckoning with Racism and Faith

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Author's family moved out of the Jim Crow South after her grandfather was nearly killed by white supremacists in Alabama, an event that left an indelible mark on the family. Timely topic and compellingly rendered to show the generational effects of racism for one Black family

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9780253064455
• ISBN-10: 0253064457
• Artikelnr.: 63366601

Autorenporträt

Sharon Tubbs began her professional career as a newspaper reporter and editor. In a career that spanned seventeen years, she worked briefly for the Philadelphia Inquirer then for the Tampa Bay Times. As a journalist, she covered various beats that included small-town government, local crime, and national religious issues. Today, Sharon Tubbs is a writer, inspirational speaker, and the director of a nonprofit organization that empowers under-resourced residents in Fort Wayne, Indiana, to live healthier lives.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Gone, Just Gone
2. History Breathes Again
3. Drilling Deep
4. Migrating to a New Life
5. Getting Religion
6. A Different Kind of Shout
7. Policing Moonshine and Murder
8. A Country Lawyer
9. Good Times Meets the Brady Bunch
10. A Black Man's Capital Crime
11. He Was That
12. Fake Preachers and Winding Roads
13. The Klan and Me
14. Faith vs. Fear
15. Turning Mess into Ministry
16. Vengeance Is His
Notes