Keep Your Head to the Sky
Interpreting African American Home Ground
Herausgeber: Gundaker, Grey
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The concept of African American home ground knits togetherdiverse aspects of the American landscape, from elite suburbs and tower apartmentsto the old homeplaces of the countryside, to the tabletop array of family photosbeside the bed of a housebound elder. This fascinating volume focuses on waysAfrican Americans have invested actual and symbolic landscapes with signifigance, gained the means to acquire property, and brought new insight to the interpretationof contemporary, historical, and archaelogical sites. Keep Your Head to the Skydemonstrates how visions of home, past and present, have he...
The concept of African American home ground knits togetherdiverse aspects of the American landscape, from elite suburbs and tower apartmentsto the old homeplaces of the countryside, to the tabletop array of family photosbeside the bed of a housebound elder. This fascinating volume focuses on waysAfrican Americans have invested actual and symbolic landscapes with signifigance, gained the means to acquire property, and brought new insight to the interpretationof contemporary, historical, and archaelogical sites. Keep Your Head to the Skydemonstrates how visions of home, past and present, have helped to shape AfricanAmericans' sense of place, often under extremely hostileconditions.
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