Cresheim Farm: 400 Years of History at an American Farm

ISBN-13: 9781032330259 / Angielski

Antje Ulrike Mattheus

Opis

The book is a work of political archaeology: it focuses on the people and events at a particular colonial farm in Germantown, Pennsylvania.

Cresheim Farm shows how one mostly unknown but strategically placed land – home to an extraordinary array of people, including early anti-slavery and, later, anti-Nazi activists, the first woman editor of the Saturday Evening Post and a robber baron – can tell, affect and reflect the history of a nation. The writing is historically grounded, future-oriented, deeply researched, and captivating. Cresheim Farm serves as a lens through which to observe and understand social forces, such as the launching point of freedom and democracy movements, white privilege, slavery, and genocidal westward expansion. The past lives on in all of us. The peoples’ and farm’s stories provide a micro and macro view of economic, social, demographic, and agro-ecological change throughout American history.

O autorze

Antje Ulrike Mattheus grew up in post-World War II West Germany and came to the US at 18 to be an organizer for the United Farmworkers Union. She has worked with a range of community, academic, direct action, and anti-violence programs to address white supremacy, race, class and gender inequalities. She has innovated grassroots adult education and empowerment programs and co-founded White People Confronting Racism, which has been conducting anti-racism workshops for white people since 1995. She enjoys restoring old buildings.