Rooted in Place: Family and Belongings in a Southern Black Community

by William W. Falk

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813534658
• ISBN13: 9780813534657
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"