God of the Whirlwind

Horror, Memory, and Story in Black Waco

Buch | Softcover

277 Seiten

2025
Baylor University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4813-2256-0 (ISBN)

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God of the Whirlwind is a book about the power of storytelling traditions to carry memories and shape ways of living. It assembles stories from members of the Black Waco community--stories that have been passed on and that have sustained life in Central Texas. In a region deeply shaped by racial injustice and the horrors of lynching, one such story tells of a destructive tornado as the justice of God. This story of the God of the whirlwind has served as one way of communicating the belief that justice is on the way. Based on oral history interviews collected and edited by Tyler B. Davis, God of the Whirlwind invites readers to listen deeply to community stories as they are shared and reflected upon across generations of Black Wacoans. The book asks readers to consider the resources for imagination and action these stories make available. In gathering the voices of Black Wacoans, God of the Whirlwind attends to the community that kept the whirlwind story, and many other stories, as part of the long struggle to imagine and build just ways of living in the region.

Tyler B. Davis is a Research Administrator, Adjunct Professor in the Mexican American Studies Program and Department of Theology, and Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Catholic Studies at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas.

Foreword by Stevie Walker-Webb
Introduction by Tyler B. Davis
Part 1. Storm
1 LaRue Dorsey
2 Linda Jann Lewis
Part 2. Story
3 Michael D. Babers
4 Bettie V. Beard
5 Nona Kirkpatrick and Anthony Fulbright
Part 3. Spirit
6 Ramad D. Carter
7 George Oliver
8 Stevie Walker-Webb
Epilogue: The Spirit of the Whirlwind

Erscheinungsdatum	05.02.2025
Vorwort	Stevie Walker-Webb
Verlagsort	Waco
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4813-2256-7 / 1481322567
ISBN-13	978-1-4813-2256-0 / 9781481322560
Zustand	Neuware