"A brilliant illustration of the ways in which race is an
artificial construct that, like beauty, is often a matter of
perspective."--"The Wall Street Journal"
"Frank and expansive . . . Each impressionistic, deeply personal
vignette is a building block, detailing Raboteau's] far-flung
search for 'home'--a 'promised land' that's as brick-and-mortar
tangible as it is spiritually confirming."--"Chicago Tribune "
A decade in the making, Emily Raboteau's" Searching for Zion" takes
readers around the world on an unexpected adventure of faith. Both
one woman's quest for a place to call "home" and an investigation
into a people's search for the Promised Land, this landmark work of
creative nonfiction 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 couldn't relate. As a biracial woman from a
country still divided along racial lines, she'd never felt at home
in America, unable to find her "Zion," which she defined as a
metaphor for freedom. But in Israel, the Jewish Zion, Raboteau 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 you're looking for?
On this ten-year journey back in time and across the globe,
Raboteau visits Jamaica, Ethiopia, Ghana, and the American South to
explore the complex and contradictory perspectives of Black
Zionists. She talks to Rastafarians, African Hebrew Israelites,
Evangelicals and Ethiopian Jews, and Katrina transplants from her
own family, overturning our ideas of place and patriotism, and
displacement and dispossession, in a disarmingly honest and
refreshingly brave take on the pull of the story of Exodus.
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