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Call To Home: African-Americans Reclaim The Rural South

Call To Home: African-Americans Reclaim The Rural South Paperback / softback - 1996

by Carol Stack

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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.

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Paperback / softback. New. Carol Stack tells the story of a little-known reverse exodus of half a million black Americans in the cities of the North, who are returning to the rural South, back to "persistent poverty counties". The author interweaves the human story with wider economic and social analysis of migration.
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  • Title Call To Home: African-Americans Reclaim The Rural South
  • Author Carol Stack
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition No Stated Editio
  • Condition New
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York
  • Date 1996-12-27
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9780465008087
  • ISBN 9780465008087 / 0465008089
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.38 x 0.66 in (20.32 x 13.67 x 1.68 cm)
  • Reading level 1120
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95044535
  • Dewey Decimal Code 304.808

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Upstream from the land that Samuel Bishop lived and died for, the water moves dark and slow in the creek bed.

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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.