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Going Over Home
A Search for Rural Justice in an Unsettled Land
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Pub Date
Sep 27 2019
| Archive Date
Sep 10 2019
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Description
"Going Over Home is a call that inspires the reader to stand shoulder to shoulder with family farmers in their daily struggle."—Willie Nelson
An intimate portrait of the joys and hardships of rural life, as one man searches for community, equality, and tradition in Appalachia
Charles D. Thompson, Jr. was born in southwestern Virginia into an extended family of small farmers. Yet as he came of age he witnessed the demise of every farm in his family. Over the course of his own life of farming, rural education, organizing, and activism, the stories of his home place have been his constant inspiration, helping him identify with the losses of others and to fight against injustices. In Going Over Home, Thompson shares revelations and reflections, from cattle auctions with his grandfather to community gardens in the coal camps of eastern Kentucky, racial disparities of white and Black landownership in the South to recent work with migrant farm workers from Latin America. In this heartfelt first-person narrative, Thompson unpacks our country’s agricultural myths and addresses the history of racism and wealth inequality and how they have come to bear on our nation’s rural places and their people.
Booklist Editors’ Choice “Best Books of 2019”
"Going Over Home is a call that inspires the reader to stand shoulder to shoulder with family farmers in their daily struggle."—Willie Nelson
An intimate portrait of the joys and hardships of rural...
Description
"Going Over Home is a call that inspires the reader to stand shoulder to shoulder with family farmers in their daily struggle."—Willie Nelson
An intimate portrait of the joys and hardships of rural life, as one man searches for community, equality, and tradition in Appalachia
Charles D. Thompson, Jr. was born in southwestern Virginia into an extended family of small farmers. Yet as he came of age he witnessed the demise of every farm in his family. Over the course of his own life of farming, rural education, organizing, and activism, the stories of his home place have been his constant inspiration, helping him identify with the losses of others and to fight against injustices. In Going Over Home, Thompson shares revelations and reflections, from cattle auctions with his grandfather to community gardens in the coal camps of eastern Kentucky, racial disparities of white and Black landownership in the South to recent work with migrant farm workers from Latin America. In this heartfelt first-person narrative, Thompson unpacks our country’s agricultural myths and addresses the history of racism and wealth inequality and how they have come to bear on our nation’s rural places and their people.
Booklist Editors’ Choice “Best Books of 2019”
A Note From the Publisher
Charles D. Thompson brings over 30 years of work centered on food, farming, farmworkers, land, and labor to the task of unpacking our country's agricultural myths. With the eye of a documentarian, he focuses on topics like racism, rural poverty, and wealth inequality through the story of his own family—making the universal personal.
Charles D. Thompson brings over 30 years of work centered on food, farming, farmworkers, land, and labor to the task of unpacking our country's agricultural myths. With the eye of a...
A Note From the Publisher
Charles D. Thompson brings over 30 years of work centered on food, farming, farmworkers, land, and labor to the task of unpacking our country's agricultural myths. With the eye of a documentarian, he focuses on topics like racism, rural poverty, and wealth inequality through the story of his own family—making the universal personal.
Advance Praise
Booklist, Starred Review— "This book deserves a place next to the writings of Wendell Berry, Henry David Thoreau, and Michael Pollan."
“This book isn’t just the story of one person’s lifelong fight for justice for family farmers and rural communities. Going Over Home is a call that inspires the reader to stand shoulder to shoulder with family farmers in their daily struggle. It puts into words why all of us at Farm Aid believe in family farmers and rural America, and why their survival matters to all of us—no matter where we live.”—Willie Nelson, president, Farm Aid
“Going Over Home bears eloquent witness to Charlie Thompson’s path toward a homegrown revolution of the heart, first illuminated by listening to many voices, then achieved by acting in solidarity with those who struggle for equality and inclusion along the wailing walls that America is building between itself and its own heart. Thompson’s exemplary memoir confronts our separate and unequal pasts and gives us a heartfelt but clear-eyed narrative of American agricultural life and a bridge toward wholeness in a broken time.”—Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, codirector of the Poor People’s Campaign; coauthor of The Third Reconstruction
Booklist, Starred Review— "This book deserves a place next to the writings of Wendell Berry, Henry David Thoreau, and Michael Pollan."
“This book isn’t just the story of one person’s lifelong fight...
Advance Praise
Booklist, Starred Review— "This book deserves a place next to the writings of Wendell Berry, Henry David Thoreau, and Michael Pollan."
“This book isn’t just the story of one person’s lifelong fight for justice for family farmers and rural communities. Going Over Home is a call that inspires the reader to stand shoulder to shoulder with family farmers in their daily struggle. It puts into words why all of us at Farm Aid believe in family farmers and rural America, and why their survival matters to all of us—no matter where we live.”—Willie Nelson, president, Farm Aid
“Going Over Home bears eloquent witness to Charlie Thompson’s path toward a homegrown revolution of the heart, first illuminated by listening to many voices, then achieved by acting in solidarity with those who struggle for equality and inclusion along the wailing walls that America is building between itself and its own heart. Thompson’s exemplary memoir confronts our separate and unequal pasts and gives us a heartfelt but clear-eyed narrative of American agricultural life and a bridge toward wholeness in a broken time.”—Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, codirector of the Poor People’s Campaign; coauthor of The Third Reconstruction
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Available Editions
| EDITION |
Other Format |
| ISBN |
9781603589123 |
| PRICE |
$18.00 (USD)
|
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