Remnants
Subtitle: a memoir of spirit, activism, and mothering
By: Rosemarie Freeney Harding, with Rachel Elizabeth Harding
Contributors: Harding, Rachel E., 1962-
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780822358688; 9780822358794
Subjects: African American civil rights workers; Mennonite women; African American scholars; Civil rights movements; Biography; History
Description: An activist influential in the civil rights movement, Rosemarie Freeney Harding's spirituality blended many traditions, including southern African American mysticism, Anabaptist Christianity, Tibetan Buddhism, and Afro-Brazilian CandomblE. Remnants, a multigenre memoir, demonstrates how Freeney Harding's spiritual life and social justice activism were integral to the instincts of mothering, healing, and community-building. Following Freeney Harding's death in 2004, her daughter Rachel finished this decade-long collaboration, using recorded interviews, memories of her mother, and her mother's journal entries, fiction, and previously published essays.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Daughter's précis / by Rachel E. Harding; title: (The light); title: Ground; title: Rye's rites (poem); title: Grandma rye; title: There was a tree in Starkville; title: Daddy's mark; title: Joe Daniels: getting unruly; title: The side of the road; title: Papa's girl; title: North; title: Snow and spring in Woodlawn; title: Shirley Darden; title: Brother Bud's death; title: Death, dreams, and secrecy: things we carried; title: Seasons; title: Elegant cousins and original beauty; title: Warmth; title: Altgeld gardens; title: Hot rolls (short fiction); title: Looking for work; title: The nursing test; title: In loco parentis (short fiction); title: Mama Freeney and the haints; title: Height; title: South; title: Hospitality, haints, and healing: African American indigenous; title: Religion and activism; title: Mennonite house in Atlanta; title: The next-door neighbor; title: Traveling for the movement; title: Koinonia farm: cultivating conviction; title: A radical compassion: his holiness the Dalai Lama, Clarence Jordan and Marion King-Jackson; title: A song in the time of dying: a memory of Bernice Johnson Reagon; title: The blood house (a story outline); title: Spirit and struggle: the mysticism of the movement; title: The Dharamsala notebook; title: Sunrise after Delhi (poem); title: The Dharamsala notebook I; title: The Dharamsala notebook II; title: Bunting; title: The bunting; title: The workshops and retreats: ritual, remembering, and medicine; title: The Pachamama circle; title: Pachamama circle I: Rachel's dream; title: Pachamama circle II: Sue Bailey Thurman and the Harriets; title: Pachamama circle III: a choreography of mothering; title: Mama and the gods; title: Fugida: poem for Oyá; title: Class visits: love, white southerners, and black exceptionalism; title: A little wind; title: (The call); title: Rosemarie's genealogies.