Call to Home: African-Americans Reclaim the Rural South

by Carol B. Stack

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465008089
• ISBN13: 9780465008087
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

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.