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Title: The Hairstons : An American Family in Black and White by Henry Wiencek ISBN: 0-312-25393-1 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: 19 February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.18 (34 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: "The Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction"
Comment: This well-known saying is the perfect description of THE HAIRSTONS-AN AMERICAN FAMILY IN BLACK AND WHITE and reminds me of why I only read non-fiction.
The book is compelling and very well written. Despite its sad subject, slavery, because of the success of the black Hairstons and the lack of animosity among the black and white Hairston descendants the reader feels an uplift about the subject of race in America. Glad to see this important book back on your featured page.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Haristons: An American Family in Black in White
Comment: Okay, I haven't read the whole book but I looked at the family tree, read the first 53 pages and " A Gathering in Ohio" because my family is inextricablely linked to this book. This offers me a foundation from which to launch a search into my family's past. I have been searching for this book and these people for about two years now and it is most of what I need to know. This book should be required reading along side any text of American history to cure a high degree of presumption.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Hairston's in Black and White
Comment: I am the niece and greatniece to two relatives in the book from pages 120. Jean is my aunt and Bay is my great aunt. For many years, our grandmother, Laura Hairston Cunningham Crenshaw told the stories of how powerful her family was. She always said she was black. Being very young at the time, I couldn't really understand why she kept saying that because she didn't look Black. This family history is fulled with the curses and blessings that come from years of sinful living and righteous living. My siblings and I visited our grandmother in Mississippi several times in our youth. My sister read the book and she was in tears, an older brother read the book and he became angry. I choose to accept the past for what it is. I have lived with my father who has direct knowledge of that family going back several generations, yet, he never discusses his life as a youth growing up in the heart of the South as a Hairston. His two brothers are now deceased but they left children behind. We have family members in Chicago and St. Louis as well as Mississippi.
I can only tell you that wealth extracts a price of its own. So does being poor. My father loved his mother and his maternal grandfather. He came away from Mississippi having learned about the character of a man and how to measure it. He loved his children (and there are many of us). He loved his brothers and his sister. We may never know the depths of his hurt and we may never understand if the hurt is the result of being a Hairston or the product of a so-called bi-racial marriage. What our family knows is that the past owes us nothing. The stories that are told about this side of the family don't matter. We were loved by them and they loved us. God brought the family through those times and continues to smile on us today. Every family has a story to tell. The Bible is filled with stories of the lives of those who passed on many years ago. Our destiny is to learn from those who have passed on. Each of us shoulders a responsibility to achieve whatever is good and right in God's sight. No more and no less.
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Title: An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America by Henry Wiencek ISBN: 0374175268 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 15 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball ISBN: 0345431057 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 29 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The White by Deborah Larsen ISBN: 0375413596 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 16 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Sweet Hell Inside: A Family History by Edward Ball ISBN: B000093TQE Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: The Sweet Hell Inside : The Rise of an Elite Black Family in the Segregated South by Edward Ball ISBN: 0060505907 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 05 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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