Call to Home: African Americans Reclaim the Rural South - Hardcover

Stack, Carol B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0465008097 ISBN 13: 9780465008094

Publisher: Basic Books, 1996

Synopsis

Recounts the stories of people who live in trailers, old cabins, and new brick houses along Southern back roads, citing the African-American trend in moving back to the South and explaining what the region represents. $35,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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Synopsis

With the novelistic verve that helped make All Our Kin a beloved, classic work, Carol Stack tells the story of a little-known yet compelling reverse exodusof half a million black Americans in the cities of the North, who heard a call to return home to the rural South. Skillfully evoking the terrain of Carolina towns she calls Burdys Bend, New Jericho, and Rosedale, Stack interweaves a powerful human story with a larger economic and social analysis of migration, families, and poverty. Call to Home offers a rare glimpse of African-American communities pulling together, determined to make it in todays America. }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. }

About the Author

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0465008097
• ISBN 13: 9780465008094
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 226