Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative - Exploring Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachian History | Perfect for Genealogy Research & Cultural Studies
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Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative traces Linda Tate’s journey to rediscover the Cherokee-Appalachian branch of her family and provides an unflinching examination of the poverty, discrimination, and family violence that marked their lives. In her search for the truth of her own past, Tate scoured archives, libraries, and courthouses throughout Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Illinois, and Missouri, visited numerous cemeteries, and combed through census records, marriage records, court cases, local histories, old maps, and photographs. As she began to locate distant relatives — fifth, sixth, seventh cousins, all descended from her great-greatgrandmother Louisiana — they gathered in kitchens and living rooms, held family reunions, and swapped stories. A past that had long been buried slowly came to light as family members shared the pieces of the family’s tale that had been passed along to them.Power in the Blood is a dramatic family history that reads like a novel, as Tate’s compelling narrative reveals one mystery after another. Innovative and groundbreaking in its approach to research and storytelling, Power in the Blood shows that exploring a family story can enhance understanding of history, life, and culture and that honest examination of the past can lead to healing and liberation in the present.
Customer Reviews
This was such a great book. The way it was written, with stories of the past and present juxtaposed, really kept it moving along and held my interest. And I really appreciated how much effort (and emotional resilience) it must have taken the author to pull this book together - how many difficult conversations with family members, plus all the research about the area (including the interesting Applachian speech patterns she captures so well).I read it several months ago, but the stories of life in the region keep coming back to me - the tiny cabins, the hard labor, the conservation, the reliance on family. There are a lot of different takeaways one could carry away from this book, but for me the timing of reading it during such difficult economic times is a helpful reminder that there is much I can do without.
