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Emily Raboteau and
Quincy Tyler Bernstine (narrator)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Brilliance Audio Lib Edn
Publication date
January 22, 2013
Binding
CD/Spoken Word
Edition
Mp3 una
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781469286167
ISBN-10
1469286165
Dimensions
0.50 by 5.50 by 7.75 in.
Weight
0.20 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$39.97
Other format details
audio
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§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Emily Raboteauâs Searching for Zion takes listeners around the world on an unexpected adventure of faith. Both one womanâs quest for a place to call âhomeâ and an investigation into a peopleâs search for the Promised Land, this landmark work is a trenchant inquiry into contemporary and historical ethnic displacement. At twenty-three, Raboteau traveled to Israel to visit her childhood best friend. While her friend appeared to have found a place to belong, Raboteau couldnât say the same for herself. As a biracial woman from a country still divided along racial lines, sheâd never felt at home in America. But as a reggae fan and the daughter of a historian of African-American religion, Raboteau knew of Zion as a place black people yearned to be. Sheâd heard about it on Bob Marleyâs Exodus and in the speeches of Martin Luther King. She understood it as a metaphor for freedom, a spiritual realm rather than a geographical one. In Israel, the Jewish Zion, she was surprised to discover black Jews. Inspired by their exodus, Raboteau sought out other black communities that had left home in search of a Promised Land. Her question for them is the same she asks herself: have you found the home youâre looking for? On her ten-year journey back in time and across the globe, through the Bush years and into the age of Obama, Raboteau wanders through Jamaica, Ethiopia, Ghana, and the Southern United States to explore the complex and contradictory perspectives of âblack Zionists.â She talks to Rastafarians and African Hebrew Israelites, Evangelicals and Ethiopian Jews, and Hurricane Katrina transplants from her own family â people who have risked everything in search of territory that is hard to define and harder to inhabit. In Searching for Zion, Raboteau overturns our ideas of place and patriotism, displacement and dispossession, citizenship and country in a disarmingly honest and refreshingly brave take on the pull of the story of exodus.
Editions
CD/Spoken Word
With Quincy Tyler Bernstine (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Brilliance Audio Lib Edn (January 22, 2013)
9781469286150 | details & prices | 6.75 × 6.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $59.97
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With Quincy Tyler Bernstine (other contributor) |
Mp3 una edition from Brilliance Audio Lib Edn (January 22, 2013)
9781469286167 | details & prices | 5.50 × 7.75 × 0.50 in. | 0.20 lbs | List price $39.97
About: Emily Raboteauâs Searching for Zion takes listeners around the world on an unexpected adventure of faith.
About: Emily Raboteauâs Searching for Zion takes listeners around the world on an unexpected adventure of faith.
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