What’s Purity Got to Do with It? Searching Family History and Genealogy |
What’s Purity Got to Do with It? Searching Family History and Genealogy
Brooklyn Historical Society
Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations
Othmer Library
Saturday, 2013-12-07, 15:00-18:00 EST (Local Time)
Part Two of the reading series Quantifying Bloodlines
How do stories help us to understand the ways in which we dissect lineage?
Bring in your own family tree, genealogical research, family photos, or family name origins, while we take a close look at The Fiddler on Pantico Run: An African Warrior, His White Descendants, A Search for Family by Joe Mozingo. Short multi-media pieces will be screened detailing more about Joe Mozingo’s search for family history through a surname that both haunts, confuses and intrigues him, and unlocks hidden histories about migration and genealogy.
If you are just beginning a search for your family history or have searched for many years, this discussion session with Jennifer Scott, anthropologist and public historian at the New School, will help to illuminate the discovery process about lineage, identity and race.
Please plan to have read the book prior to our meeting.
Session is limited to 15 participants. Active participation is key.
This reading and discussion group is co-sponsored by MixedRaceStudies.org
For more information, click here.
Tags: Brooklyn Historical Society, Jennifer Scott, Joe Mozingo