Belonging

A Culture of Place

Author: bell hooks
ISBN: 9780415968164

What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can we say that we truly belong? These are some of the questions of place and belonging that renowned cultural critic bell hooks examines in her new book, Belonging: A Culture of Place. Traversing past and present, Belonging charts a cyclical journey in which hooks moves from place to place, from country to city and back again, only to end where she began--her old Kentucky home. hooks has written provocatively about race, gender, and class; and in this book she turns her attention to focus on issues of land and land ownership. Reflecting on the fact that 90% of all black people lived in the agrarian South before mass migration to northern cities in the early 1900s, she writes about black farmers, about black folks who have been committed both in the past and in the present to local food production, to being organic, and to finding solace in nature. Naturally, it would be impossible to conte

Publisher: Routledge
Publish Date: 2008-11-01

Subjects: Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General, Social Science / Human Geography, Social Science / Popular Culture

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