Keep Your Head to the Sky

Interpreting African American Home Ground

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10240210
AutoresJohn K Thornton (0000-0001-8760-2634, autor de correspondencia), Grey Gundaker, Tynes Cowan
Año2000
Volumen66
Número3
Páginas629
Fecha de publicación2000-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Southern History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-4642 • E-ISSN: 2325-6893
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2587889
OpenAlexW1765276816
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11

The concept of African American home ground knits together diverse aspects of the American landscape, from elite suburbs and tower apartments to the old homeplaces of the countryside, to the tabletop array of family photos beside the bed of a housebound elder. This fascinating volume focuses on ways African Americans have invested actual and symbolic landscapes with signifigance, gained the means to acquire property, and brought new insight to the interpretation of contemporary, historical, and archaelogical sites. Keep Your Head to the Sky demonstrates how visions of home, past and present, have helped to shape African Americans' sense of place, often under extremely hostile conditions

Common ground · Geography · Head (geology · Meteorology · Sky · Sociology · Communication · Geology · History · Paleontology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies