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Homecoming: The Story of African-American Farmers Tapa blanda - 2002

Name: Homecoming: The Story of African-American Farmers
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Author: Charlene Gilbert Professor of Film; Quinn Eli
ISBN: 9780807009635

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An illustrated history of African-American farmers, Homecoming is a requiem for a way of life that has almost disappeared. Based on the film Homecoming, produced for the Independent Television Service with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The videocassette of Homecoming is available from California Newsreel at www.newsreel.org.

Detalles

Título Homecoming: The Story of African-American Farmers
Autor Charlene Gilbert; Quinn Eli
Encuadernación Tapa blanda
Páginas 192
Volúmenes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial Beacon Press, U.S.A.
Fecha de publicación January 6, 2002
Ilustrado Sí
ISBN 9780807009635 / 0807009636
Peso 0.98 libras (0.44 kg)
Dimensiones 9.02 x 7.02 x 0.74 pulgadas (22.91 x 17.83 x 1.88 cm)
Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 0000008995
Dewey Decimal Code 305.563

Reseñas en medios

Homecoming tells a distressing story but delivers an uplifting message. --Jim Hightower

"Revisiting the unbearable hardships encountered by my great-grandparents, grandparents, and parents as they sought to survive the inhuman sharecropping system of the post-Civil War South-a system in many ways more brutal than slavery-my heart breaks again. But reading Homecoming's account of our ancestors' determined humility, obdurate courage, and fierce pride in and love of the land, my heart is healed. I see why there is such a thing as ancestor worship. I could not love my sharecropping ancestors more if I had created them myself. That black Southerners still love nature and revere the earth is the legacy of a people whose innate elegance and dignity was always expressed in essentials." --Alice Walker

Acerca del autor

Charlene Gilbert is an independent filmmaker and professor of film at the State University of New York, Buffalo. Quinn Eli teaches English and creative writing at the Community College of Philadelphia and is a columnist for the Philadelphia Weekly.

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