Call to Home: African-Americans Reclaim the Rural South

Author: Carol B. Stack
Publisher: The Perseus Books Group
Category: Social Sciences, African-American
Book Format: Paperback

The long-awaited new book by the author of the bestselling All Our Kin is a poignant saga of a reverse exodus: the return of half a million black Americans to the rural South. There have been many books focusing on the black migration out of the South into Northern cities. But few people are aware that over the past 20 years the trend has been in the other direction, with African-Americans moving back south, to some of the least promising places in all of Americaplaces the Department of Agriculture calls Persistent Poverty Counties. Carol Stack brings their stories to life in this captivating book. Interweaving a powerful human story with a larger economic and social analysis of migration, poverty, and the urban underclass, Call to Home offers a rare glimpse of African-American families pulling together and trying to make it in todays America.

Table Of Contents
* Burdys Bend * Unlovable Land * Soul Searching * Miss Pearls Purse * Clydes Dilemma * Holding Hands * Mothers Day * Election Day
About Carol Stack
Carol B. Stack is professor of women's studies and education at the University of California at Berkeley. The author of All Our Kin and numerous articles on poverty and social policy, she is also past president of the Society for Urban Anthropology. She was awarded the Prize for Critical Research in 1995 from the Society for the Anthropology of North America. She has received Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Russel Sage Fellowships. She returns often to a home in North Carolina.

(BK-9780465008087)

SKU BK-9780465008087
Barcode # 9780465008087
Brand The Perseus Books Group
Artist / Author Carol B. Stack
Shipping Weight 0.3000kg
Shipping Width 0.140m
Shipping Height 0.020m
Shipping Length 0.200m
Assembled Length 20.320m
Assembled Height 1.680m
Assembled Width 13.670m
Type Paperback

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