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Keep Your Head to the Sky: Interpreting African American Home Ground Tynes Cowan
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Keep Your Head to the Sky: Interpreting African American Home Ground
Tynes Cowan
This volume demonstrates how visions of home, past and present have helped to shape African-American's sense of place, often under hostile conditions. It focuses on the ways in which an exiled people has located itself through such activities as ""yard work"".
Commendation Quotes:"Keep Your Head to the Sky is a ground-breaking work. The first book to focus on a crucial aspect of African American culture, it examines the ways in which an exiled people has located itself through such activities as 'yard work.' Gundaker brings togeth some of the top scholars in the field, as well as a number of exciting new voices. While the resulting material is often controversial, it is well-argued and thoroughly documented." -- Judith Wilson, University of California-IrvineReview Quotes: Keep Your Head to the Sky is a ground-breaking work. The first book to focus on a crucial aspect of African American culture, it examines the ways in which an exiled people has located itself through such activities as 'yard work.' Gundaker brings togeth some of the top scholars in the field, as well as a number of exciting new voices. While the resulting material is often controversial, it is well-argued and thoroughly documented.--Judith Wilson, University of California-IrvineBiographical Note: Grey Gundaker is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at the College of William and Mary and the author of Signs of Diaspora/Diaspora of Signs: Literacy, Creolization, and Vernacular Practice in African America. Commendation Quotes: Keep Your Head to the Sky is a ground-breaking work. The first book to focus on a crucial aspect of African American culture, it examines the ways in which an exiled people has located itself through such activities as 'yard work.' Gundaker brings togeth some of the top scholars in the field, as well as a number of exciting new voices. While the resulting material is often controversial, it is well-argued and thoroughly documented. Marc Notes: How an exiled people has located itself through such activities as yard work; Also avail.in cloth at $65.00.
Contributor Bio: Gundaker, Grey Grey Gundaker is an associate professor of anthropology and American studies at the College of William and Mary. Her books include Signs of Diaspora/Diaspora of Signs: Literacies, Creolization, and Vernacular Practice in African America and Keep Your Head to the Sky: Interpreting African American Home Ground (coedited with Tynes Cowan).
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | December 29, 1998 |
| ISBN13 | 9780813918242 |
| Publishers | University of Virginia Press |
| Genre | Ethnic Orientation > African American |
| Pages | 352 |
| Dimensions | 155 × 235 × 22 mm · 544 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Gundaker, Grey |
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