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Author Walker, Tamara J., 1978- author.

Title Beyond the shores : a history of African Americans abroad / Tamara J. Walker.

Publication Info. New York : Crown, 2023.

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - New Materials  910.89 WAL    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  910.89 WALKER    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Wilson Branch - New Materials  910.896 WA    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description viii, 337 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-324) and index.
Summary "An award-winning author charts the poignant journeys of African Americans abroad as she explores her own transatlantic family odyssey in this powerful global history of traveling while Black. Part historical exploration, part travel memoir, Beyond the Shores reveals poignant histories of a diverse group of African Americans who have left the United States over the course of the past century. Tying these tales together is Dr. Tamara J. Walker's personal account of her family's--and her own--experiences abroad, in France, Brazil, Argentina, Austria, and beyond. Together, the interwoven stories highlight African Americans' complicated relationship to the United States and world at large. Beyond the Shores is not just about where African Americans stayed or where they ate when they traveled, but about why they left in the first place and how they were treated once they reached their destinations. Drawing on years of research, Walker chronicles their experiences in atmospheric detail, taking readers from well-known capital cities to more unusual destinations like Yangiyol, Uzbekistan and Kabondo, Kenya. She follows Florence Mills, the would-be Josephine Baker of her day, in Paris, and Richard Wright, the author-turned-actor and filmmaker, in Buenos Aires. She relays tender stories of adventurous travelers, including a group of gifted Black crop scientists in the 1930s, a housewife searching for purpose in the 1950s, a Peace Corps volunteer discovering his identity in the 1970s, and her own grandfather who, after losing his eye fighting in World War II and returning to a country that showed no signs of honoring his sacrifice, set out with his wife and children on a circuitous journey that sent them back and forth across the Atlantic. By sharing the histories of those who escaped the racism of the United States to try their hands at life abroad, Beyond the Shores shines a light on the meaning of home and the search for a better life"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject African Americans -- Travel -- History.
African Americans -- Foreign countries.
Americans -- Foreign countries.
African Americans -- Biography.
HISTORY / United States / General.
African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
African Americans -- Travel. (OCoLC)fst00799716
Americans -- Foreign countries. (OCoLC)fst00807504
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographies.
Other Form: Online version: Walker, Tamara J., 1978- Beyond the shores First edition. New York : Crown, 2023 9780593139066 (DLC) 2022056997
ISBN 9780593139059 (hardcover)
0593139054
9780593139066 (ebook)
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