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A review by lattelibrarian
Belonging: A Culture of Place by bell hooks
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!