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lsparrow's review against another edition
5.0
I always find when I read bell hooks I am struck how she provides insight that I feel is often missing in difficult conversations about race. She is is so straight forward and up front but also does not fall into dichotomies. so powerful.
heidihaverkamp's review against another edition
4.0
I'm fascinated by books about home, the landscapes and places we belong to. Here, hooks chronicles her relationship with Kentucky, growing up as a hillbilly in the racially integrated green hills of the backcountry, her family history, how she left/escaped and tried to learn to live other places, and eventually, to her great surprise, moved back - and eventually died there. It's a series of essays she mostly published other places, over many years, and gathered together in a collection.
kublakat's review against another edition
5.0
really wonderful reflections about home, nature, and place. i liked the repetitive nature of writing in some of the essays — felt like being in hook’s mind, where your brain keeps turning the same thought over and over.
textual_sensations's review against another edition
5.0
Amazing!!! Will right full review shortly!!!
emilytcanread's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
I listened to an audiobook and enjoyed it.
lattelibrarian's review against another edition
4.0
This was an amazing book--if you've ever read Black Faces, White Spaces, this book is for you! bell hooks, with her usual tenacity and eloquence, discusses race, gender, class, and location. How do we carry our homes with us? What, exactly, constitutes a home? How have people found their homes, or been forced to call a place their home?
hooks describes the Great North Migration as well as environmental racism, urban development, and healing. Where it may be commonplace, as it is in my family and experience, to never be able to "go home" again once you leave it, bell hooks disagrees. For her, returning home can be healing, fulfilling. Especially when there's generational psychological and racial trauma.
She discusses roots and heritage and accents and locale in ways that are rich, powerful, and overall deep and truthful. This should definitely be required reading for anyone interested in heritage, the environment, or their own self.
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hooks describes the Great North Migration as well as environmental racism, urban development, and healing. Where it may be commonplace, as it is in my family and experience, to never be able to "go home" again once you leave it, bell hooks disagrees. For her, returning home can be healing, fulfilling. Especially when there's generational psychological and racial trauma.
She discusses roots and heritage and accents and locale in ways that are rich, powerful, and overall deep and truthful. This should definitely be required reading for anyone interested in heritage, the environment, or their own self.
Review cross-listed here!