By Richard L. Nostrand, Lawrence E. Estaville
What does it suggest to be from someplace? If most folks within the usa are "from some other place" what's an American native land? In answering those questions, the members to Homelands: A Geography of tradition and position throughout America provide a geographical imaginative and prescient of territory and the formation of discrete groups within the U.S. at the present time. Homelands discusses teams equivalent to the Yankees in New England, outdated Order Amish in Ohio, African american citizens within the plantation South, Navajos within the Southwest, Russians in California, and a number of other peoples and areas.
Homelands explores the relationship of individuals and position by means of displaying how facets of a number of diversified North American teams stumbled on their area of interest and created a place of birth. a suite of fifteen essays, Homelands is an cutting edge examine geographical ideas in neighborhood settings. it's also an exploration of the educational paintings occurring approximately homelands and their humans, of the way components similar to tradition, cost, and cartographic suggestions come jointly in American sociology. there's a lot not just to check but additionally to have a good time approximately American homelands. because the editors kingdom, "Underlying modern-day pluralistic society are homelands—large and small, robust and weak—that undergo not directly. The mosaic of homelands to which individuals bonded in higher or lesser levels, affirms in a holistic method America's variety, its pluralistic society."
The authors depict the cultural results of immigrant cost. The conviction that folks have to perform the lifetime of the fatherland to accomplish their very own self cognizance, in the traditions and comforts of that group. Homelands offers us a brand new map of the us, a map drawn with people's lives and the land that's their domestic.
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