Call To Home: African-Americans Reclaim The Rural South - Softcover

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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.

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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.
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Anthropologist Stack (Univ. of California, Berkeley; All Our Kin, 1973) examines--approvingly--the migration of African- Americans back to the rural South. For many decades African-Americans fled that region in large numbers for the promise of better jobs and less discrimination in the urban North. But the tide turned in 1970, and by 1990 half a million blacks had returned home to the South. Stack probed this phenomenon in several impoverished counties in North and South Carolina and concludes that it is the call of home and family that is bringing blacks back, not the promise of better jobs or better treatment. She has written not an ethnographic study but a record of the lives of several families she came to know well, interspersed with wider observations. The book is episodic, and it is sometimes difficult to follow the various, tangled familial strands. Because Call to Home is so deliberately nonscientific and anecdotal, one cannot know how relevant the author's conclusions are to the general population of return migrants. But Stack has wonderful stories to tell about poor people immensely richer in family and communal ties than most Americans--those who ``lack a place to go home to.'' Her families, especially the women, possess enormous reserves of courage and perseverance; they know the real meaning of ``family values,'' and they know that ``family life is a resource, sometimes the only readily available resource that poor people can turn to in times of trouble.'' With the skills they learned up North, and with the ``social capital'' provided by family and community, these migrants are shaking up their old-new southern homes. Stack carefully records the longings and hopes of African- Americans moved to leave northern cities and return to the rural Carolinas. She is most successful in making those particular longings relevant to a far broader spectrum of Americans. ($35,000 ad/promo; author tour) -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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  • PublisherBasic Books
  • Publication date1996
  • ISBN 10 0465008089
  • ISBN 13 9780465008087
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  • Number of pages256
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