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Another Way Home
Ronne Hartfield
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Description for Another Way Home
Paperback. Celebrates the special circumstance of being born and reared in a household where being a woman of mixed race could be a fundamental source of strength, vitality, and courage. This book traces Day Shepherd's journey to Bronzeville, the epicenter of black Chicago during the first half of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 200 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; BG; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 181 x 14. Weight in Grams: 322.
Spanning most of the twentieth century, "Another Way Home" celebrates the special circumstance of being born and reared in a household where being a woman of mixed race could be a fundamental source of strength, vitality, and courage. Ronne Hartfield begins her chronicle with the early life of her mother, Day Shepherd. Born to a wealthy British plantation owner and the mixed-race daughter of a former slave, Day negotiates the complicated circumstances of plantation life in the border country of Louisiana and Mississippi and, as she enters womanhood, the quadroon and octoroon societies of New Orleans. Equally a tale of ... Read more
Spanning most of the twentieth century, "Another Way Home" celebrates the special circumstance of being born and reared in a household where being a woman of mixed race could be a fundamental source of strength, vitality, and courage. Ronne Hartfield begins her chronicle with the early life of her mother, Day Shepherd. Born to a wealthy British plantation owner and the mixed-race daughter of a former slave, Day negotiates the complicated circumstances of plantation life in the border country of Louisiana and Mississippi and, as she enters womanhood, the quadroon and octoroon societies of New Orleans. Equally a tale of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226318233
SKU
V9780226318233
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Ref
99-50
About Ronne Hartfield
Ronne Hartfield is a senior research fellow in religion and art at the Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions and an international museum consultant. She is the former Woman's Board Endowed Executive Director of Museum Education at the Art Institute of Chicago and was executive director of Chicago-based Urban Gateways: The Center for Arts in Education.
Reviews for Another Way Home
"A warm and touching memoir of a close-knit family as well as a record of the tumultuous history of race relations in the U.S." - Booklist "Graceful, intelligent, full-hearted, and searching, Hartfield's memoir tells the story of her mother's journey from a Southern plantation to the clamor of New Orleans to the bustle of Chicago's Bronzeville.... Another daughter writing a ... Read more