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Keeping Heart - A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine (Hardcover)
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Keeping Heart - A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine (Hardcover)
Series: Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia
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"After saying our good-byes to friends and neighbors, we all got in
the cars and headed up the hill and down the road toward a future
in Ohio that we hoped would be brighter," Otis Trotter writes in
his affecting memoir, Keeping Heart: A Memoir of Family Struggle,
Race, and Medicine. Organized around the life histories, medical
struggles, and recollections of Trotter and his thirteen siblings,
the story begins in 1914 with his parents, Joe William Trotter Sr.
and Thelma Odell Foster Trotter, in rural Alabama. By telling his
story alongside the experiences of his parents as well as his
siblings, Otis reveals cohesion and tensions in twentieth-century
African American family and community life in Alabama, West
Virginia, and Ohio. This engaging chronicle illuminates the
journeys not only of a black man born with heart disease in the
southern Appalachian coalfields, but of his family and community.
It fills an important gap in the literature on an underexamined
aspect of American experience: the lives of blacks in rural
Appalachia and in the nonurban endpoints of the Great Migration.
Its emotional power is a testament to the importance of ordinary
lives.
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