Belonging
A Culture of Place

What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can we say that we truly belong? This book examines these questions. It discusses the connections that link the environment and sustainability to the politics of race and class.

Reflecting on the racism that continues to find expression in the world of real estate, she writes about segregation in housing and economic racialized zoning. In these critical essays, Hooks finds surprising connections that link of the environment and sustainability to the politics of race and class that reach far beyond Kentucky. With characteristic insight and honesty, "Belonging" offers a remarkable vision of a world where all people - wherever they may call home - can live fully and well, where everyone can belong.

1. Preface: To Know Where I\'m Going2. Kentucky Is My Fate3. Moved by Mountains4. Touching the Earth5. Reclamation and Reconciliation6. To Be Whole and Holy7. Again--Segregation Must End8. Representations of Whiteness in the Black Imagination9. Drive through Tobacco10. Earthbound: On Solid Ground11. An Aesthetics of Blackness: Strange and Oppositional 12. Inspired Eccentricity13. A Place Where the Soul Can Rest14. Aesthetic Inheritances: History Worked by Hand15. Piecing It All Together16. On Being a Kentucky Writer17. Returning to the Wound18. Healing Talk: A Conversation19. Take Back the Night--Remake the Present20. Habits of the Heart21. A Community of Care