Sign-In
Cart
Belonging: A Culture of Place
Paperback
Black American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology
ISBN13: 9780415968164
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 20 2008
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
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 contemplate these issues without thinking about the politics of race and class. Reflecting on the racism that continues to find expression in the world of real estate, she writes about segregation in housing and economic racialized zoning. In these critical essays, hooks finds surprising connections that link of the environment and sustainability to the politics of race and class that reach far beyond Kentucky.
With characteristic insight and honesty, Belonging offers a remarkable vision of a world where all people--wherever they may call home--can live fully and well, where everyone can belong.
Also in
General Racism & Ethnic Studies
The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning
Menakem, Resmaa
Paperback
The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias
Nordell, Jessica
Hardcover
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Olorunnipa, Toluse
Samuels, Robert
Hardcover
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
Menakem, Resmaa
Paperback
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Kendi, Ibram X.
Paperback
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
Thrasher, Steven W.
Hardcover
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Rothstein, Richard
Paperback
Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
Hardcover
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else)
Táíwò, Olúfẹ́mi O.
Paperback
Facing the Mountain: An Inspiring Story of Japanese American Patriots in World War II
Brown, Daniel James
Paperback
Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West
Hyde, Anne F.
Hardcover
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
Villarosa, Linda
Hardcover
All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope--And Hard Pills to Swallow--About Fighting for Black Lives
Henry, Andre
Hardcover
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Fadiman, Anne
Paperback
Speaking of Race: Why Everybody Needs to Talk about Racism--And How to Do It
Headlee, Celeste
Hardcover
Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America
Schmitt, Angie
Paperback
You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
Ruffin, Amber
Lamar, Lacey
Hardcover
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Saad, Layla
Hardcover
How to Argue with a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say about Human Difference
Rutherford, Adam
Paperback
Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
Hill, Marc Lamont
Paperback
Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy
Ricketts, Rachel
Paperback
The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America
Buccola, Nicholas
Hardcover
The State Must Provide: The Definitive History of Racial Inequality in American Higher Education
Harris, Adam
Paperback
Games Against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa
Harms, Robert
Paperback
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Perry, Imani
Hardcover
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Jacobs, Harriet
Douglass, Frederick
Paperback
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race
Tatum, Beverly Daniel
Paperback
The Healing Power of African-American Spirituality: A Celebration of Ancestor Worship, Herbs and Hoodoo, Ritual and Conjure
Bird, Stephanie Rose
Paperback
Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between
Osmundson, Joseph
Paperback
The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast
Johnson, Kirk Wallace
Hardcover
Solitary: A Biography (National Book Award Finalist; Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
Woodfox, Albert
Paperback
The Facilitator's Guide for White Affinity Groups: Strategies for Leading White People in an Anti-Racist Practice
Burtaine, Amy
Diangelo, Robin
Paperback
The Legal Universe: Observations of the Foundations of American Law
Deloria Jr, Vine
Wilkins, David E.
Paperback
For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color
Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez, Prisca
Hardcover
The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal--And How to Set Them Right
Harris, Adam
Hardcover
The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth about Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations
Livingston, Robert
Hardcover
It Could Happen Here: Why America Is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable--And How We Can Stop It
Greenblatt, Jonathan
Hardcover
The Antiracist Deck: 100 Meaningful Conversations on Power, Equity, and Justice
Kendi, Ibram X.
Other
Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero
Larson, Kate Clifford
Paperback
The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
Jones, Chip
Paperback
Dear White Women: Let's Get (Un)Comfortable Talking about Racism
Blanchard, Sara
Graham, Misasha Suzuki
Paperback
The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness
Magee, Rhonda V.
Paperback
You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
Ruffin, Amber
Lamar, Lacey
Paperback
The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--And How We Can Fix It
Brown, Dorothy A.
Paperback
Loud Black Girls: 20 Black Women Writers Ask: What's Next?
Adegoke, Yomi
Uviebinené, Elizabeth
Paperback
Family Properties (10th Anniversary Edition): Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America
Satter, Beryl
Paperback
Make Change: How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our Future
King, Shaun
Paperback
Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator
Lowenthal, Leo
Guterman, Norbert
Paperback
Muslim Girls and the Other France: Race, Identity Politics, and Social Exclusion
Keaton, Trica Danielle
Paperback
The Freedom Writers Diary (20th Anniversary Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them
The Freedom Writers
Gruwell, Erin
Paperback
Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America
Colby, Tanner
Paperback
Race-Ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality
Morrison, Toni
Paperback
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
Degruy, Joy a.
Paperback
From Babylon to Timbuktu: A History of the Ancient Black Races Including the Black Hebrews
Windsor, Rudolph R.
Paperback
Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming
Carlisle, Liz
Hardcover
Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
Manjapra, Kris
Hardcover
The Counter Revolution of 1836: Texas slavery & Jim Crow and the roots of American Fascism
Horne, Gerald
Paperback
Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
Roberts, Dorothy
Hardcover
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
Richardson, Heather Cox
Paperback
Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
Brown, Daniel James
Hardcover
Created Equal: The Painful Past, Confusing Present, and Hopeful Future of Race in America
Carson, Ben
Hardcover
Design for Belonging: How to Build Inclusion and Collaboration in Your Communities
Wise, Susie
Stanford D School
Paperback
The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail
Green, Kristen
Hardcover
Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning: Building Expressways to Success
Fritzgerald, Andratesha
Paperback
The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice: Black Lives, Healing, and Us Social Transformation
Davis, Fania E.
Paperback
The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure
Mounk, Yascha
Hardcover
The Iceman Inheritance: Prehistoric Sources of Western Man's Racism, Sexism and Aggression
Bradley, Michael
Paperback
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
Eberhardt, Jennifer L.
Paperback
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E.
Paperback
Raise a Fist, Take a Knee: Race and the Illusion of Progress in Modern Sports
Feinstein, John
Hardcover
The Mamas: What I Learned about Kids, Class, and Race from Moms Not Like Me
Andrews-Dyer, Helena
Hardcover
Dear Freedom Writer: Stories of Hardship and Hope from the Next Generation
Gruwell, Erin
The Freedom Writers
Paperback
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Rothstein, Richard
Hardcover
Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital
Asch, Chris Myers
Musgrove, George Derek
Paperback
A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis
Nakate, Vanessa
Hardcover
The First, the Few, the Only: How Women of Color Can Redefine Power in Corporate America
Purushothaman, Deepa
Hardcover
Actions Speak Louder: A Step-By-Step Guide to Becoming an Inclusive Workplace
Singh, Deanna
Hardcover
The Ground Breaking: The Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City's Search for Justice
Ellsworth, Scott
Paperback
Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger: School Segregation in Rochester, New York
Murphy, Justin
Hardcover
Letters to the Sons of Society: A Father's Invitation to Love, Honesty, and Freedom
Senghor, Shaka
Hardcover
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
Richardson, Heather Cox
Hardcover