If this is Your Land, where are Your Stories?: Reimagining Home and Sacred SpaceStories give shape and meaning to people's sense of themselves as individuals, their cultures, their nations, and what is called "home." The stories we tell, whatever our ethnicity, race, or religion, both connect and separate us. If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? considers the hold that our stories--especially those about home--have on us and how we interact with others. |
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Page 75
... African experience of slavery in the Americas . “ By the rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept , " sang the psalmist ... Africa , as well as parts of Asia . How can we find some consolation , some sense of THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME 75.
... African experience of slavery in the Americas . “ By the rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept , " sang the psalmist ... Africa , as well as parts of Asia . How can we find some consolation , some sense of THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME 75.
Page 109
... Africa . They weren't quite dead yet ; but the assumption was that they , and their people , soon would be . They are " one of the most primitive people of the world , whose extinction , if a reserve is not created , can scarcely be ...
... Africa . They weren't quite dead yet ; but the assumption was that they , and their people , soon would be . They are " one of the most primitive people of the world , whose extinction , if a reserve is not created , can scarcely be ...
Page 190
... African slavery in the Americas the last text is often used in Christian burial services -but it is also a bringing ... Africa . This rever- sal of the direction of metaphor is vintage Rastafari , and for Ras Kumi it represents the only ...
... African slavery in the Americas the last text is often used in Christian burial services -but it is also a bringing ... Africa . This rever- sal of the direction of metaphor is vintage Rastafari , and for Ras Kumi it represents the only ...
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