October Staff Picks: Roots and Routes
Second Floor
Topic: Roots and Routes: Writings on Home, Movement, and Identity
For each individual, the word “home” elicits a smattering of associations and leaves in its wake intimate understandings of places, people, foods, languages, feelings, objects, and cultures. Yet, wherever there is a concept of home, there is also movement—a force that stretches home’s reach and complicates its definition.
This selection of works explores various iterations of home and movement, conceptualized by sociologist Paul Gilroy as “Roots” and “Routes” in his 1993 work The Black Atlantic, and considers how these intertwined forces influence the formation of identity.
-- Maddie Roberts / Reference and Reader Services
-- Kai Oh, Library Associate / Art and Design
Where: Second Floor
Staff Picks is curated and designed each month by the Gottesman Libraries' staff to highlight resources on educational topics and themes of special interest.
