Searching for Zion
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2013]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: ix, 305 pages ; 24 cm
Documents the author's decade-long search for identity and a place of belonging as inspired by African-American and Jewish history as well as the exoduses of black communities that left ancestral homes in search of "promised lands."
Contents:
Israel : we're going to Jerusalem. Do you know where Canaan is? ; The Land of Oz ; Tezeta ; Transitioning -- Jamaica : belief kill and belief cure. Home to roost ; The Twelve Tribes ; Roots reggae ; "An island of Zion is no Zion at all" -- Ethiopia : as long as there is Babylon, there must be Zion. Jamaica Town ; Sons and daughters of Ethiopia ; I land ; Birthday of the Patriarch -- Ghana : who will inherit you when you die? Daughters of Obama ; "Nigganese" ; Kindly pass to the next gate ; Points to ponder when considering repatriating home -- Black Belt of the American South : this is the place you were delivered. A dollar and a dream ; Holy Week ; Survivors ; Ishem.
Subjects:
African diaspora.
Africans -- Migrations.
Black people -- Migrations.
Africa -- Emigration and immigration.
African diaspora.
Africans -- Migrations.
Black people -- Migrations.
Africa -- Emigration and immigration.
ISBN:
9780802120038
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SOCIAL SCI Migration Rab | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-305).