by Tom DeWolf | Jul 6, 2008 | Race, Oppression, Privilege
This Tuesday (two days from when I write these words), ABC’s Nightline television show explores modern-day slavery. I was alerted to this special investigative report by David Crumm, who has a blog called “Read the Spirit” and has been in touch with...
by Tom DeWolf | Jun 12, 2008 | Coming to the Table, Race, Oppression, Privilege
A key focus of study this week in the Coming to the Table course I’m participating in at Eastern Mennonite University is the impact of trauma–defined as a deep wound that happens when something abnormally shocking, painful, or harmful occurs and leaves us...
by Tom DeWolf | May 28, 2008 | Books, Reviews, Inheriting the Trade, Race, Oppression, Privilege
One of the pleasures of traveling about the United States to speak with people about Inheriting the Trade is, well, the people. On the one hand I’ve met several new relatives that I’ve never heard of before (4th, 6th, 9th cousins and the list goes on). On...
by Tom DeWolf | May 15, 2008 | History, Genealogy, Race, Oppression, Privilege, Trauma and Healing
When I ran across this story today I was filled with both pain and hope. Christiane Amanpour, the international correspondent for CNN, interviewed Iphigenia Mukantabana, a woman whose husband and five children were slaughtered during the 100-day genocide in Rwanda in...
by Tom DeWolf | Apr 30, 2008 | Appearances by Tom, Inheriting the Trade, Race, Oppression, Privilege, Traces of the Trade
My cousin Katrina Browne (producer/director of Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North) and I were in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania this past week (Thursday, April 24) as part of the National Constitution Center’s year-long “Legacy of 1808”...
by Tom DeWolf | Apr 14, 2008 | Movies, Reviews, Race, Oppression, Privilege
This past Friday night MSNBC broadcast the documentary film Meeting David Wilson. David Wilson is a 28-year old African American man from New Jersey who, in researching his ancestry, found another David Wilson–a white man from North Carolina whose ancestors once...
