| Call to Home: African-Americans Reclaim the Rural South Contributor(s): Stack, Carol B. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0465008089 ISBN-13: 9780465008087 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1996 Annotation: Many books have focused on the black migration out of the South into Northern cities. Now, the trend has reversed as African-Americans reclaim the rural South. Skillfully evoking three fictional Carolina towns, the author interweaves a powerful human story with a larger economic and social analysis of migration, poverty, and the urban underclass. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration |
| Dewey: 304.808 |
| LCCN: 95044535 |
| Lexile Measure: 1120 |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.38" W x 8" (0.60 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 America--places 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 today's America. |
