Names We Call Home

Autobiography on Racial Identity
Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-0-415-91162-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 177 mm x 252 mm, Gewicht: 585 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thompson, Becky

Tyagi, Sangeeta

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.