by Tom DeWolf | Feb 14, 2009 | Author Stuff, Writing, Books, Reviews, Trauma and Healing
I miss reading novels. AND, I no longer have time to read novels. That’s what I’ve convinced myself of over the past few years. Silly me. Since embarking on the journey that resulted in my writing Inheriting the Trade I’ve focused my reading,...
by Tom DeWolf | Dec 6, 2008 | Books, Reviews, Race, Oppression, Privilege
Last April I attended the White Privilege Conference in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote about it in this blog. Dr. Abby Ferber is a professor of sociology, women’s studies, and ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She helps...
by Tom DeWolf | Nov 20, 2008 | Books, Reviews, Race, Oppression, Privilege
Douglas A. Blackmon’s Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II is one of the most harrowing books I’ve read in a long time–and one of the most important. My sense of the Jim Crow era has...
by Tom DeWolf | Oct 3, 2008 | Books, Reviews, Inheriting the Trade, Race, Oppression, Privilege, Traces of the Trade
The Episcopal Church of the USA will apologize for its involvement in the institution of slavery tomorrow, October 4, in a Service of Repentance at the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A story about the service was on the front...
by Tom DeWolf | Aug 4, 2008 | Books, Reviews, Race, Oppression, Privilege
Lose Your Mother is a book I just finished that I highly recommend. I learned about it from Belvie Rooks, Vice President of Special Projects at Danny Glover’s Carrie Productions. Allow me to explain… On August 27 I’ll participate in my first-ever...
by Tom DeWolf | Jul 16, 2008 | Appearances by Tom, Books, Reviews, Inheriting the Trade
This Saturday, July 19, beginning at approximately 4:45pm (eastern daylight time; this program plays live everywhere–at 1:45pm pacific time, for instance) Book TV (C-Span 2) will broadcast a panel discussion live from the Harlem Book Fair: From the Door of No...
