Embracing Our Roots: Rediscovering the Value of Faith Family and Tradition

America has provided a platform for countless migrant peoples who have in turn contributed to the nations landscape as a multicultural land of opportunity. Still the waves of assimilation can obscure the distinctive customs and beliefs of immigrants many feeling coerced to conform to American attitudes towards race the economy and politics. Others inundated with American media consumerism and secularity have forgotten those aspects about their family heritage that make them unique.Drawing from Palmas background as an Italian American evangelical Embracing Our Roots considers the significance of rediscovering our ancestral history in a society where many are forced to repress ignore or reject their heritage. A nation of immigrants every American is in some sense an ethnic American and stands to gain from considering how the people and places they come from make them unique. In addition to using genealogy databases and social networks Palma maintains the rich value of thumbing through the family archives hearty conversations with loved ones and building ones family tree. This book is for scholars and laypersons alike with interest in the themes of biblical living faith-based traditions food culture immigration social class race family dynamics and mental health.