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The sunny optimism they passed on to their children. I thought I knew my parents so well. I was wrong. I set out to write a book exploring America’s hidden conversation about race but changed course when I started listening intently to the hidden conversations in my own family. I was shocked to learn that my father was shot in the leg by ...
The Grace of Silence Norris is also the author of The Grace of Silence , [23] a memoir and reported non-fiction book that started as an extension of the Race Card Project. [24] In the book Norris writes of discovering her father's shooting by a Birmingham police officer and also her maternal grandmother's job as an itinerant Aunt Jemima .
Sep 6, 2011 · The questions, discussion topics, and reading suggestions that follow are intended to enhance your reading group’s discussion of The Grace of Silence, Michele Norris’s deeply personal memoir. 1. Michele Norris discovered family secrets because elders in her family started divulging stories in the wake of Barack Obama's election.
The questions, discussion topics, and reading suggestions that follow are intended to enhance your reading group’s discussion of The Grace of Silence, Michele Norris’s deeply personal memoir. Introduction “Powerful and heartbreaking. . . . [Norris] explores race within her family history while tracing its complex legacy in the United ...
Sep 21, 2010 · Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 10, 2017. Verified Purchase. The Grace of Silence is a moving family memoir about one woman’s journey as she digs into her family’s past and discovers much more than she had ever imagined. After Barack Obama’s historic win of the presidential nomination in 2008, NPR correspondent Michele ...
I hope The Grace of Silence encourages people to think about their own complex family legacies and to consider a core question: How well do we really know the people who raised us? Michele Norris Her voice informs, engages and enlightens listeners with thoughtful interviews and in depth reporting as one of the hosts of NPR’s flagship ...
Sep 28, 2010 · “The Grace of Silence’s” meticulous re-creation of the historical record has much to offer to today’s national conversation on race. But its flaw is that Norris is unable to confidently ...