Another way home : the tangled roots of race in one Chicago family / Ronne Hartfield.

Author/creator Hartfield, Ronne, 1936- author.
Format Book
EditionUncorrected page proof.
PublicationChicago : University of Chicago Press, [2004]
Copyright Date©2004
Descriptionxxii, 178 pages : genealogical table ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
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Contents Alpha: the long mysterious Exodus of death -- Beginnings: strange fates -- Sacred wounds -- On the place -- Matriarchy -- The lightning fields -- New Orleans -- Day and the city -- The ring -- A stern destiny: Chicago found and lost -- The post-depression years -- Streetcars -- In the castle of our skin -- Dining in -- Go down the street -- Naming the holy -- Strange fruit -- Our father's frieght train blues -- Lifelines -- Last years -- Omega.
Review "In her prologue to Another Way Home, Ronne Hartfield notes the dearth of stories about African Americans who have occupied the area of mixed race with ease and harmony for generations. Spanning most of the twentieth century, Hartfield's book celebrates the special occasion of being born and reared in a household where miscegenation was the rule rather than the exception - where being a woman of mixed race could be a fundamental source of strength, vitality, and courage. Hartfield begins with the early life of her mother, Day Shepherd. Born to a wealthy British plantation owner and the mixed-race daughter of a former slave, Day negotiates the complicated circumstances of plantation life in the border country of Louisiana and Mississippi and, as she enters womanhood, the quadroon and octoroon societies of New Orleans. Equally a tale of the Great Migration, Another Way Home traces Day's journey to Bronzeville, the epicenter of black Chicago during the first half of the twentieth century." --Cover page 4.
Digital Bookplate Bookplate for Gene and Susan Roberts
Acquisitions source Joyner Rare copy gift of Gene and Susan Roberts, 2016.
Genre/formBiography.
Genre/formCase studies.
ISBN0226318214 (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN9780226318219 (cloth ; alk. paper)

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