Julie Carr’s Family History in Mud, Blood and Ghosts Fuels a Darker Telling of American History

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Julie Carr’s Family History in Mud, Blood and Ghosts Fuels a Darker Telling of American History
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When Julie Carr read her populist great-grandfather's diaries, she began to look at history's darker sides.

, which took over the last three decades of his life. There’s something about the way families curate around the stories of ancestors. My father didn't know, either, and the only people who would have silenced it were his children.

He said, ‘I don't know that I can talk with you about them.’ It turned out that my cousin Chris Christensen had gotten into an email battle with him about the materials, which were caught up in a legal issue. The librarian said Chris was angry, but Chris is not like that at all. I began to draw bigger circles around the stories. In each chapter about what happened to him, political events were connecting and overlapping, and I was learning about these deep pockets of history.

That makes me feel more committed to thinking and acting on a basis of paying attention to different kinds of inequality and suffering that might go on. I’m more committed, but not because I feel more complicit. It makes me feel more committed because I know there are choices. People have stories about when someone with power made something harmful happen, and people who worked against inequalities put lives on the line. There are also stories of people going along, keeping the status quo.

Looking at Kem, and the eugenics, the racism that accompanies ableism and other injustices that come along with the eugenics point of view, it’s important for the whole family to know—and this is a dominant point — the range of that influence and query our own selves. Are we thinking some people are more worthy than others? Anybody could fall into that. For instance, the idea that people unhoused aren't exactly people anymore. We let the idea seep in.

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