by Thomas Norman DeWolf | Jan 1, 2012 | Books, Road Trip
Welcome to 2012! Today is the first day of the year in which Gather at the Table: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade will be published by Beacon Press. Sharon and I will spend most of this year preparing for (and anxiously...
by Thomas Norman DeWolf | Nov 3, 2011 | Road Trip
The United States has a long history of powerful, privileged people successfully dividing less-powerful and less-privileged people by race, class, gender, and other social constructs in order to protect their power and privilege. Over the past year the world has...
by Thomas Norman DeWolf | Aug 3, 2011 | Books, Post Racial Society, Race Relations, Road Trip, Slavery, The South, Writing
I just returned from a family reunion. It was attended by people, old and young, who have been getting together for more than 30 years. I had never known any of them until we met this weekend at the Elliot School of International Studies at George Washington...
by Thomas Norman DeWolf | Jul 10, 2011 | Books, Post Racial Society, Race Relations, Road Trip, Uncategorized, Writing
I spent a lovely day yesterday at the Founder’s Day Street Fair in the town in which I live. I volunteered to man (?) the information booth for the local chamber of commerce. I figured this would be a good way to meet my neighbors and begin to assimilate into...
by Thomas Norman DeWolf | Jun 23, 2011 | Books, Post Racial Society, Race Relations, Road Trip, Slavery, The South, Uncategorized, Writing
When I was a child, many of my friends were recent arrivals from the South whose families came north during “The Great Migration.” Those of us who were born in Chicago sometimes laughed at their funny accents and country ways. There were also many children...
by Thomas Norman DeWolf | Jun 16, 2011 | Road Trip
After posting Colonial Williamsburg: History on Steroids a few days ago, I received more comments on Facebook than for anything I’ve written in several months. In response to this statement, “it is often quite challenging to find people of color willing to...
