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| Remnants
ISBN: 9780822375586
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Duke University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Civil rights movements; Mennonite women; African American civil rights workers; African American scholars;
This collaboration between the late social justice activist and organizer Harding and her daughter Rachel Elizabeth (A Refuge in Thunder) is a spirited compilation of ecumenical history, folk wisdom, fiction, memoir, and poetry. Harding, who died in 2004, developed and crafted the bulk of this endearingwork that traces the unique history of African Americans in the southern U.S. and their mystic divine belief that transcends monotheism. The central message of Harding's life is abiding love, passed down through generations, strengthened in the aftermath of grief, racial terrorism, and trauma. The book also tells the unusual story of Mennonite House, a pioneering center of interracial activism in Atlanta co-founded by Harding and her husband, and offers other insights that shape its powerful narrative. (May) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Rosemarie Freeney Harding (1930-2004) was an organizer, teacher, social worker, and cofounder of Mennonite House, an early integrated community center in Atlanta. She also cofounded the Veterans of Hope Project at the Iliff School of Theology.
Rachel Elizabeth Harding, daughter of Rosemarie Freeney Harding and Vincent Harding, is Associate Professor of Indigenous Spiritual Traditions in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Colorado, Denver, and author of A Refuge in Thunder: Candomblé and Alternative Spaces of Blackness . |
