Call to Home

I believe that our American culture has socially arranged people to classify others as “white”, “black, or “other”. Call to Home was an excellent story written with true heart and feelings, which made me think long and hard about African American values and beliefs in the United States today. I saw that all of the characters in this story as human, not as “black”. Race is not easy to classify, and it definitely is not correct to have only three categories. ealize that race is a socially generated idea. I believe it was Stack’s careful ethnographic style that helped evoke these feelings. The ethnographic account given by Stack, as stated before, was very revealing to me. It revealed a world to me that I am new to. Stack’s book made me!

look at all of this very carefully. What makes up those categories? What if there is a mix of races? Is the child of an inter-racial relationship automatically classified as “other”? Those questions are highly debatable and not easy to answer. As an ethnographic literary work, Call to Home provided me with excellent stories of African American roots, feelings, language, and family. The account, the evocation, and the literary properties of this novel made it a very good story.

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