Keep Your Head to the Sky: Interpreting African American Home Ground

The concept of African American home ground knits together diverse aspects of the American landscape, from elite suburbs and tower apartments to the old homeplaces of the countryside, to the tabletop array of family photos beside the bed of a housebound elder. This fascinating volume focuses on ways African Americans have invested actual and symbolic landscapes with significance, gained the means to acquire property, and brought new insights to the interpretation of contemporary, historical, and archaeological sites. Keep Your Head to the Sky demonstrates how visions of home, past and present, have helped to shape African Americans' sense of place, often under extremely hostile conditions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813918243
• ISBN13: 9780813918242
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher