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Title Searching for Zion [electronic resource eBook] : the quest for home in the African Diaspora / Emily Raboteau.
Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : Grove Atlantic, 2013.
Description 1 online resource.
Edition First edition.


BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-305).
Contents Israel : we're going to Jerusalem. Do you know where Canaan is? ; The Land of Oz ; Tezeta ; Transitioning -- Jamaica : belief kill and belief cure. Home to roost ; The Twelve Tribes ; Roots reggae ; "An island of Zion is no Zion at all" -- Ethiopia : as long as there is Babylon, there must be Zion. Jamaica Town ; Sons and daughters of Ethiopia ; I land ; Birthday of the Patriarch -- Ghana : who will inherit you when you die? Daughters of Obama ; "Nigganese" ; Kindly pass to the next gate ; Points to ponder when considering repatriating home -- Black Belt of the American South : this is the place you were delivered. A dollar and a dream ; Holy Week ; Survivors ; Ishem.
Summary Documents the author's decade-long search for identity and a place of belonging as inspired by African-American and Jewish history as well as the exoduses of black communities that left ancestral homes in search of "promised lands."
System details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Format: Adobe EPUB eBook.
Format: Kindle Book.
Format: OverDrive Read.
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Other edition Print version: Raboteau, Emily. Searching for Zion : the quest for home in the African Diaspora. First edition. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2013 203 pages 9780802120038
Subject African diaspora.
Africans -- Migrations.
Black people -- Migrations.
Africa -- Emigration and immigration.
Genre Electronic books.
Other corporate author OverDrive, Inc.
Other title Title on dust jacket Searching for Zion : the quest for home in the African diaspora
ISBN 9780802193797
080219379X
STANDARD # 6E1AF4AE-F836-4D1F-A7F1-E5719B5D7761 OverDrive