Reviews
My Father's Name is a memorable venture in personal and family history-scrupulous, candid, imaginative, and weighty in its commentary on the abiding conflicts in American culture over the issues of race, injustice, and our common humanity., My Father's Name is a memorable venture in personal and family history--scrupulous, candid, imaginative, and weighty in its commentary on the abiding conflicts in American culture over the issues of race, injustice, and our common humanity., Lawrence P. Jackson's matter-of-fact prose is accessible and is strangely and beautifully evocative of the Civil War era. We not only learn about the deprivations, inhumanity, and constant humiliations perpetrated on black people in the nineteenth century, but we gain a deeper understanding of what constitutes American culture and society today. It is amazing that Jackson's family survived to produce such a splendid writer able to share their story with us., "Through the Jackson family saga, Jackson recounts the broader African American story of struggle through slavery and Reconstruction. Jackson writes with the detailed precision of a scholar but the emotional attachment of a kinsman."-- Booklist, " My Father's Name is a memorable venture in personal and family history-scrupulous, candid, imaginative, and weighty in its commentary on the abiding conflicts in American culture over the issues of race, injustice, and our common humanity."-Arnold Rampersad, Stanford University, Jackson's work becomes a nonfiction Roots in many ways and portrays the difficulty for African Americans in finding their history. However, Jackson's thorough research sheds light on many issues having to do with slavery, emancipation, and the lives of freedmen., "Lawrence P. Jackson''s matter-of-fact prose is accessible and is strangely and beautifully evocative of the Civil War era. We not only learn about the deprivations, inhumanity, and constant humiliations perpetrated on black people in the nineteenth century, but we gain a deeper understanding of what constitutes American culture and society today. It is amazing that Jackson''s family survived to produce such a splendid writer able to share their story with us."-Edward P. Jones, author of The Known World, "Through the Jackson family saga, Jackson recounts the broader African American story of struggle through slavery and Reconstruction. Jackson writes with the detailed precision of a scholar but the emotional attachment of a kinsman."- Booklist
