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Chargement... Searching for Zion (original 2013; édition 2013)par Emily Raboteau
Information sur l'oeuvreSearching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora par Emily Raboteau (2013) Top Five Books of 2013 (476) Chargement...
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The book chronicles the author's decade-long attempt to discover just where, if anywhere, an African-American might feel at home. It is also a brilliant illustration of the ways in which race is an artificial construct that, like beauty, is often a matter of perspective. . . . She has produced a gracefully written account of pathos and unrequited longing, a memoir that raises more questions and contradictions than it offers soothing answers. Prix et récompensesDistinctions
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." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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After that she travels to Jamaica to understand more about the culture and beliefs of Rastafarians, Ethiopia to see the settlement created there by Jamaican transplants who are convinced Ethiopia is their promised land, and Ghana to talk to African Americans who relocated there seeking connection with the continent of their ancestors. Raboteau is deeply curious about these peoples, why they moved where they did and how they feel about it now, and this book provides a mesmerizing inside look at their subcultures. She treats everyone she meets with sincere respect, but doesn't gloss over or ignore their shortcomings and inconsistencies--for instance in Ethiopia it's the Jamaicans who are colonizers and they don't always treat the locals well, in spite of their own experience of colonization.
The book ends with Raboteau visiting her Hurricane Katrina displaced relatives in the American South, where she tours sites of the Civil Rights Movement and again considers questions of what makes a home. I learned a lot reading this book, and enjoyed the journey immensely. As an added bonus, Raboteau has a wonderful way with words, deftly picking out details to set a scene or describe the many people she met in her travels ( )