Names We Call Home
Autobiography on Racial Identity
Published on 27. December 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-0-415-91162-7 (ISBN)
Description
Names We Call Home is a ground-breaking collection of essays which articulate the dynamics of racial identity in contemporary society. The first volume of its kind, Names We Call Home offers autobiographical essays, poetry, and interviews to highlight the historical, social, and cultural influences that inform racial identity and make possible resistance to myriad forms of injustice.
Reviews / Votes
"This is not a woe-is-me, tear-jerking collection: It is a dynamic call to action. The many different stories illuminate options, real possibilities for real people to develop strategies to navigate the racist shoals in today's shallow cultural waters. What makes this book groundbreaking are the ways in which the editors use personal stories to validate cultural theory." -- Middletown PressMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 252 mm
Width: 177 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
585 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-91162-7 (9780415911627)
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01/1996
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Persons
Becky Thompson teaches African American Studies and Sociology at Wesleyan University. Sangeeta Tyagi is Director at the Exploration Summer Program, a curricular and co-curricular summer program for high school students.
Content
I: Blood Ties, Communal Relations; 1: "When we Are Capable of Stopping, We Begin to See"; 2: Mrs. Brent; 3: Red and Black in White America; 4: Writing in Search of a Home; 6: Alice's Little Sister; 6: Place and Kinship; II: Piecing Together History; 7: Locating Biafra; 8: Afro Images; 9: Time Traveling and Border Crossing; 10: A Hyphenated Identity; 11: Jews in the U.S; 12: Chattanooga Black Boy; III: Love Letters and Conversations; 13: My Dear Niece; 14: Oxydol Poisoning; 15: Wrting Life; 16: Birth of a Negation; 17: Jippin' the Furniture; IV: "Acts of Creation: Sweat, Blood, Bone"; The Breakdown of the Bicultural Mind; Eating Salt; Turning the Myths of Black Masculinity Inside/Out; "Wandering between Two Words, One Dead, the Other Powerless to Be Born"; Playing the Devil's Advocate; Black Women and the Wilderness; Toward the Light; Waiting for a Taxi