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Book

The long road home : on Blackness and belonging

Call Number

  • 305.896 T4695 (CEN)

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Edition

Scribner Canada edition.

Publication Information

Toronto, Ontario ; New York : Scribner Canada, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2022

Physical Description

270 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Summary

"From a leading scholar on the politics of race comes a work of family history, memoir, and insight gained from a unique journey across the continent, on what it is to be Black in North America."--

Notes

Includes reading group guide.

Contents

  • 1. The Great White North
  • 2. The Only One
  • 3. The Freedom Trail
  • 4. Appalachian Elegies
  • 5. The Black Metropolis
  • 6. The Western Frontier
  • 7. Borderlands
  • 8. Je reviendrai parmi vous.

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