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Paperback Call to Home: African-Americans Reclaim the Rural South Book

ISBN: 0465008089

ISBN13: 9780465008087

Call to Home: African Americans Reclaim the Rural South

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The long-awaited new book by the author of the bestselling All Our Kin is a poignant saga of a reverse exodus: the return of half a million black Americans to the rural South.There have been many books focusing on the black migration out of the South into Northern cities. But few people are aware that over the past 20 years the trend has been in the other direction, with African-Americans moving back south, to some of the least promising places in all of America--places the Department of Agriculture calls "Persistent Poverty Counties." Carol Stack brings their stories to life in this captivating book. Interweaving a powerful human story with a larger economic and social analysis of migration, poverty, and the urban underclass, Call to Home offers a rare glimpse of African-American families pulling together and trying to make it in today's America.

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Returning Home

Considering relocating out of the Los Angeles area, I read this book and felt drawn to move down south. Being raised in New York City and living in California for 15 years I did have my reservations. But since we moved to Raleigh, NC not only have I had no regrets, I'm now a Realtor helping other African American's relocate to the area.
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