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Rooted in Place: Family and Belonging in a Southern Black Community
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by William W. Falk
Sales Rank: 650140
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Cover Type: Paperback with 219 pages
Published by: Rutgers University Press October 30, 2004
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0813534658
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0813534657
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches
Weighs: 13.6 ounces
Book Description
"Rooted in Place brings the texture of a southern family epic and the sociological imagination together with intellectual courage and intimacy. Absorbing and original."-Carol Stack, author of All Our Kin and Call To Home
Throughout the twentieth century, millions of African Americans, many from impoverished, historically black counties, left the South to pursue what they thought would be a better life in the North. But not everyone moved away during what scholars have termed the Great Migration. What has life been like for those who stayed? Why would they remain in a place that many outsiders would see as grim, depressed, economically marginal, and where racial prejudice continues to place them at a disadvantage?
Through oral history William Falk tells the story of an extended family in the Georgia-South Carolina lowcountry. Family members talk about schooling, relatives, work, religion, race, and their love of the place where they have lived for generations. This "conversational ethnography" argues that an interconnection between race and place in the area helps explain African Americans loyalty to it. In Colonial County, blacks historically enjoyed a numerical majority as well as deep cultural roots and longstanding webs of social connections that, Falk finds, more than outweigh the racism they face and the economic disadvantages they suffer.
About The Author
William W. Falk is a professor and chair of the department of sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. His previous books include High Tech, Low Tech, No Tech: Recent Industrial and Occupational Change in the South; Forgotten Places: Uneven Development in Rural America; and Communities of Work: Rural Restructuring in Local and Global Contexts.
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