Bibliograph

Shelter, a black tale of Homeland, Baltimore, Lawrence Jackson

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Label

Shelter, a black tale of Homeland, Baltimore, Lawrence Jackson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-329)

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Shelter

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1310788580

Responsibility statement

Lawrence Jackson

Sub title

a black tale of Homeland, Baltimore

Summary

Touching upon such topics as fatherhood, race, and faith, this collection of essays describes the author's struggles in 2016 to make a home in Baltimore, a place that eventually became the foundation for him to explore his personal and spiritual history, as well as the city's untold storiesWhen Jackson accepted a new teaching job in Baltimore in 2016, he searched for schools for his son and bought a house. Here he describes his struggle to make a home in the city that had just been convulsed by the uprising that followed the murder of Freddie Gray. His neighborhood was largely white, and built on racial covenants. His essays examine a personal, spiritual, and civil history that captures the absurdity of American life. - adapted from back cover

Table Of Contents

Advent: color storms rising almost to a hurricane -- Christmas: long quarter at River Bend -- Epiphany: Sunday boys -- Lent: appraisement of negroes at the folly, or dinner -- Eostre in Lafayette Square -- White Sunday: "an invasion of African negroes -- Ordinary time: the gentle brushing fescue

Target audience

adult

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