The Long Road Home- On Blackness and Belonging by Debra Thompson
INSTANT BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 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. When Debra Thompson moved to the United States in 2010, she felt like she was returning to the land of her ancestors, those who had escaped to Canada via the Underground Railroad. But her decade-long journey across Canada and the US transformed her relationship to both countries, and to the very idea of home. In The Long Road Home, Thompson follows the roots of Black identities in North America and the routes taken by those who have crisscrossed the world's longest undefended border in search of freedom and belonging. She begins in Shrewsbury, Ontario, one of the termini of the Underground Railroad and the place where members of her own family found freedom. More than a century later, Thompson still feels the echoes and intergenerational trauma of North American slavery. She was often the Only One-the only Black person in so many white spaces-in a country that perpetuates the national mythology of multiculturalism. Then she revisits her four American homes, each of which reveals something peculiar about the relationship between American racism and democracy- Boston, Massachusetts, the birthplace.
- Suggested age range- Adult
- Format- Paperback
- Product dimension- 5.3" W x 8.3" H x 1" D
- Genre- Social Sciences
- Publisher- Simon & Schuster, Publication date- 09-06-2022
- Page count- 288
- ISBN- 9781982182465
Web ID: 16836916
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