Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only €10,99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness
    Unavailable
    Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness
    Unavailable
    Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness
    Audiobook11 hours

    Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness

    Written by Baynard Woods

    Narrated by Will Collyer

    3.5/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this audiobook

    In this unflinching, honest narrative, an award-winning journalist discovers his family’s heritage as slave owners in the South and grapples openly with his whiteness to inspire others to do the same.

    "Bracing, candid, and rueful." —Kirkus 

    Baynard Woods thought he had escaped the backwards ways of the South Carolina he grew up in, a world defined by country music, NASCAR, and the confederacy. He’d fled the South long ago, transforming himself into a politically left-leaning writer and educator.

    Then he was accused of discriminating against a Black student at a local university. How could I be racist? he wondered. Whiteness was a problem, but it wasn’t really his problem. He taught at a majority Black school and wrote essays about education and Civil Rights.

    But it was his problem. Working as a reporter, it became clear that white supremacy was tearing the country apart. When a white kid from his hometown massacred nine Black people in Charleston, Woods began to delve into his family’s history—and the ways that history has affected his own life.
    When he discovered that his family—both the Baynards and the Woodses—collectively claimed ownership of more than 700 people in 1860, Woods realized his own name was a confederate monument. Along with his name, he had inherited privilege, wealth, and all the lies that his ancestors passed down through the generations.

     In this gripping and perceptive memoir, Woods takes us along on his journey to understand how race has impacted his life.  Unflinching and uninhibited, Inheritance explores what it means to reckon with whiteness in America today and what it might mean to begin to repair the past.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateJun 28, 2022
    ISBN9781549188893
    Unavailable
    Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness
    Author

    Baynard Woods

    BAYNARD WOODS is a freelance writer living in Baltimore. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and many other publications. He is coauthor, with Brandon Soderberg, of I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad.

    Related to Inheritance

    Related audiobooks

    Personal Memoirs For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Two Years Of Solitude

      Dec 31, 2021

      Two Years Of Solitude
      12 min read

    • Article

      The Idiots

      Feb 26, 2021

      The Idiots
      18 min read

    • Article

      Makes What Me, Me?

      Apr 14, 2022

      Makes What Me, Me?
      9 min read

    • Article

      Faith Empowered

      May 27, 2020

      Faith Empowered
      6 min read

    • Article

      HALF & HALF

      Feb 17, 2020

      HALF & HALF
      4 min read

    • Article

      Time & Other Poems

      Sep 1, 2024

      Isn’t it annoying, how you can read allyou want about the past, but not go there?Collect whatever you want from back then,whenever, put it on a shelf. You can evendecide you like a time period, hit up eBayor Craigslist, and in no time you can havealm

      7 min read

    • Article

      Winning Letter

      Aug 19, 2022

      Life on the streets is very hard. Not everyone who is displaced is a drug addict or disobedient. Some of us are faced with difficult situations back in our villages, like unemployment, forcing us to come to the city for a better life. I found myself

      5 min read

    • Article

      What Makes Me, Me?

      Apr 14, 2022

      What Makes Me, Me?
      9 min read

    • Article

      Your Voices

      Aug 20, 2021

      Your Voices
      7 min read

    • Article

      My Funny, Angry Dad

      Mar 19, 2022

      My Funny, Angry Dad
      6 min read

    • Article

      In America

      Aug 8, 2019

      In America
      11 min read

    • Article

      The Great Escape

      Aug 8, 2024

      The Great Escape
      5 min read

    • Article

      My Best Friend

      Oct 1, 2020

      My Best Friend
      6 min read

    • Article

      White Paper Family

      Aug 11, 2019

      White Paper Family
      9 min read

    • Article

      Dating Under The Radar

      Oct 1, 2021

      Dating Under The Radar
      4 min read

    • Article

      Liz Carr

      May 13, 2024

      Liz Carr
      6 min read

    • Article

      60 Seconds That Changed My Life

      Feb 5, 2023

      DATE: December 2D, 1999, 8:15pm EVENT: Writer and broadcaster BENJAMIN LAW comes out to his mum about his sexuality. I GREW UP on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, the last mainland state in Australia to decriminalise homosexuality. That meant for a

      3 min read

    • Article

      60 Seconds That Changed My Life

      Feb 5, 2023

      DATE: December 2D, 1999, 8:15pm EVENT: Writer and broadcaster BENJAMIN LAW comes out to his mum about his sexuality. I GREW UP on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, the last mainland state in Australia to decriminalise homosexuality. That meant for a

      3 min read

    • Article

      Past The Edges Of Town

      Jan 27, 2022

      Past The Edges Of Town
      10 min read

    • Article

      Some Other I Before Me

      May 21, 2018

      On books as mentors for those of us who grew up in the wake of HIV/AIDS. The post Some Other I Before Me appeared first on Guernica.

      14 min read

    • Article

      Hard Work And Desire

      Aug 4, 2023

      As the first recipients of the Stormzy Scholarship to Cambridge in 2018, Drew Chateau and Joseph Vambe didn’t know what to expect. They had already been accepted at the university, to do law, and human, social and political sciences respectively. Aft

      4 min read

    • Article

      “I Wore The Daily Mail Down By Still Being Here”

      Apr 25, 2021

      Broadcaster and presenter Sandi Toksvig might be the closest thing we have to lesbian royalty in the UK. As host of shows like QI and The Great British Bake Off, the 62-year-old has become a beloved household name, adored by millions. How different t

      7 min read

    • Article

      Two Fathers

      Jun 18, 2022

      Two Fathers
      9 min read

    • Article

      Exodus

      Sep 15, 2018

      My exodus occurred after years wandering the wilderness of my hometown. For bread to live, for bread to leave, I worked a part-time gig at the Oregonian’s downtown insert facility, stacking pallet after pallet of inky-ass newspapers. The day in quest

      15 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Inheritance

    3.5/5

    4 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words