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Summary: A Slight Bit Slanted But Still Somewhat Enjoyable
Review: "Call to Home" tells the untold story of the remigration of African Americans back to the South. The book is written as an ethnography in a novelistic fashion. The stories told give fantastic insight into the motivation and attitudes compelling these individuals to move back "home". Rather than for economic reasons, Stack posits that the nostalgia of home and the love of family drive these African Americans back South. Unfortunately the stories in the book portray the men as less sentimental and as caring less for their homelands. If Stack found that this was indeed the case she ought to have postulated why. Instead the reader is left wondering if this is indeed the case or is Stacks viewpoint is somewhat slanted. (I might point out that she is a professor of Women's Studies at Berkeley). Overall, the book was very enlightening and a pleasant read.
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Summary: this book is not for the average person
Review: "Call to Home" tells the untold story of the remigration of African Americans back to the South. The book is written as an ethnography in a novelistic fashion. The stories told give fantastic insight into the motivation and attitudes compelling these individuals to move back "home". Rather than for economic reasons, Stack posits that the nostalgia of home and the love of family drive these African Americans back South. Unfortunately the stories in the book portray the men as less sentimental and as caring less for their homelands. If Stack found that this was indeed the case she ought to have postulated why. Instead the reader is left wondering if this is indeed the case or is Stacks viewpoint is somewhat slanted. (I might point out that she is a professor of Women's Studies at Berkeley). Overall, the book was very enlightening and a pleasant read.
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Summary: this book is not for the average person
Review: This book was assigned to me as a reading for a book review in my cultural anthropology class at Mississippi State University. I thought that this book was a difficult one to read because the layout was hard to follow. The names began to get jumbled by the fourth chapter. The story line could be good if it was brought to the audience in a more typical and easy to read format. Less rambling on and on would be great. I have never read a book that took half a page to describe a creek...it would have been ok if the book was about the stream but it wasn't it was about like 50 people and eachof their life stories...It stunk!!
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