ABOUT

Why are so many white people turning to pagan spiritualities or researching their ancestors in this moment as they try to look at their own racism?

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"Rooting: white European Americans confronting, race, past, present, and humanity" is a story-driven audio documentary focusing on a community of white people - European Americans - in Minneapolis, Minnesota and beyond who've been re-connecting with ancestral traditions, practicing together, and trying to build a new culture not based in whiteness.

 

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• Episode 1: Introduction (25:14) 

• Episode 2: The characters (15:52)

• Episode 3: The community & why people got into it (27:49)

• Episode 4: Folk culture & middle class culture (19:12)

• Episode 5: Whiteness: what does it look like, how does it act? (20:08)

• Episode 6: Cultural practices: from way back to today (24:39)

• Episode 7: Gender, queerness, & elders (15:52)

• Episode 8: Where do we go from here? (10:23)

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Written, produced, sound designed, and edited by Emily Krumberger © 2022.

Photography by Emily Krumberger © 2021.

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Credits:

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Much gratitude to the Cultural Wellness Center - including the weekly community care call group & Moving From Race to Culture, Elder Atum, Elder Sara Axtell, the Healing Roots community, Völva Kari, Elder Cara Carlson, the AnamCara community, Elder Kaia, Biff Dunsworth, Niky Duxbury, Jena Brune, cheré bergeron, Joy Salyers, Donald Engstrom-Reese, Nell Pierce, Kestrel Feiner-Homer, Christina Beck, Ellen Hufschmidt, Julie & Becka from Folklore for Resistance, kendrick wronski, Mendel Polish, and my Center for Documentary Studies certificate program peers - Jelani, Walt, Maggie, and the rest. To my many ancestors who brought me here. To my dad and my family.

And to Cristine Higgin: rest well.