My Confederate Kinfolk

Novelist and playwright, Thulani Davis takes a journey through her ancestral history, and finds Scottish tartan, unlikely lovers and Confederate soldiers in her past. Starting from a photograph and writings left by her grandmother, acclaimed African-American novelist, Thulani Davis decided to go looking for the white folk in her ancestry - a Scots-Irish family of cotton planters unknown to her - and uncovered a history far richer and stranger than any she had ever imagined. Her journey challenges us to examine the origins of some of our most deeply ingrained notions about what makes a family black or white, and offers an immensely compelling, intellectually challenging alternative.