Main entry:

hooks, bell, 1952-2021, author.

Title & Author:

Belonging : a culture of place / bell hooks.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2009.

Description:

viii, 230 pages ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface : to know where I'm going -- Kentucky is my fate -- Moved by mountains -- Touching the earth -- Reclamation and reconciliation -- To be whole and holy -- Again : segregation must end -- Representations of whiteness in the black imagination -- Drive through tobacco -- Earthbound : on solid ground -- An aesthetics of blackness : strange and oppositional -- Inspired eccentricity -- A place where the soul can rest -- Aesthetic inheritances : history worked by hand -- Piecing it all together -- On being a Kentucky writer -- Returning to the wound -- Healing talk : a conversation -- Take back the night : remake the present -- Habits of the heart -- A community of care.

Summary:

What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? How do we create community? When can we say that we truly belong? The issues of place and belonging are the subject of this book. Moving from past to present, the author charts a journey in which she moves from place to place, from country to city and back again, only to end where she began in her native place, Kentucky. She explores a geography of the heart, focusing on issues of homeplace, of land, and land stewardship, linking the issues to global environmentalism and sustainability. She writes about family and the ties that bind. And she focuses on the experience of black farmers, past and present who celebrate local organic food production. This work offers a vision of a world where all people, wherever they call home, can live fully and well, and where everyone can belong.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780415968157 (hardback ; alk. paper)
0415968151 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9780415968164 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
041596816X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
(e-book)
9780203888018
0203888014
9781138328976 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1138328979 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

hooks, bell, 1952-2021.
hooks, bell 1952-2021
hooks, bell, 1952-.
hooks, bell.
Home Social aspects.
Home Kentucky.
African American women Kentucky Biography.
African Americans Kentucky Biography.
Foyer Aspect social.
Foyer Kentucky.
Noires américaines Kentucky Biographies.
Noirs américains Kentucky Biographies.
African American women
African Americans
Home
Heimat
Kentucky Biography.
Kentucky Biographies.
Kentucky

Form/genre:

Autobiography
Autobiographies.
Nonfiction.
autobiographies (literary genre)
Biographies

Holdings:

Location: Library main 309257
Call No.: BIB 254527
Status: Available