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An inspiring memoir about the authors lifelong quest for racial reconciliation, the love that sustains his interracial family in contemporary Mississippi, and the Yes we can! hope for American renewal that fades after the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and the despair-driven rise of Black Lives Matter. nWhat has happened to the dream of beloved community embraced by Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement of the early 1960s--the vision of a just, humane, and colorblind America, a nation of black and white together animated by the spirit of mutual respect and strengthened by the bonds of brotherly love? As Adam Gussow shows in this urgently needed new book, the dream, although pressured on every front, remains alive. n nAt the heart of My Family and I is Gussows determination, in Kings terms, to live out the true meaning of Americas creed--a quest for transracial brotherhood that takes him from a blues partnership forged on the streets of 1980s Harlem through graduate training at Princeton and, decades later, a transformative course on the blues literary tradition that he shares with inmates at Mississippis notorious Parchman Farm. n nAnchoring Gussows quest is a story of enduring love: a playful, soulful interracial romance between the newly hired professor at Ole Miss and his soon-to-be-wife Sherrie that blossoms with the birth of a musically gifted son, Shaun. As America explodes with protest and riots in the summer of 2020 after the death of George Floyd, as social justice fundamentalists insist on stigmatizing whiteness and hardening the color line rather than healing the divisions that plague us, Gussow is forced to fight for what he loves--not just the sanctity of his family circle, but Kings dream of beloved community. n nMy Family and I gifts the reader with hope for a future beyond Americas seemingly insoluble racial dilemmas.n
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