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Can a young black American woman ever find her true heritage? Emily Raboteau seeks her historical and spiritual roots in multiple countries & amongst multiple religions & cultures. She finds herself a citizen of the world. Her search is urgent, au currant, and teaches lessons to our multicultural world: we cannot tease apart the threads that have woven our personal tapestry.


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Searching for Zion The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora Emily Raboteau 9780802120038 Books Reviews

So much of our history, so much feeling, so much truth. Whew!
I bought this book for myself and I bought another copy for a friend and we both love this book. Highly recommend.
As a northern born but now southern living white male in my 70"s, I never understood the black persons unhappiness with living in the USA. It seemed to me that living in Africa would be worse than here. Well, Emily Raboteau found that out the hard way by spending 10 years traveling to Jamacia and Ganaha as well as Isreal and Ethopia. As a fair skinned women with a white Irish Catholic mother and a black AME Protestant Harvard educated father she found Zion where most people do, where your heart is. Bloom where you are planted is a trite but valid quotation. At my age, I have been a world traveler and discovered many beautiful places to live but I also learned that to be happy you need to be contented and, if you are lucky, with a partner that you love and who loves you. Emily found that partner in NYC where she was born and she found Zion with it. We should all be that lucky.
Great book.
I never would have picked up this book if it weren't for the fact that I went to High School with the author and wanted to support her. I am so glad that I read it.
Emily's voice throughout the book is warm, fun and engrossing. She is gutsy and writes with spunk. I learned a lot of new history in this book, but it doesn't read like a boring history book. She intertwines historical facts with her travels across the globe, sharing deeply personal stories with the reader. You will meet amazing new people along with her- people that I never myself would have met, or had the guts to interact with.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about human geography, who is interested in learning about other cultures, or who just wants to go on an amazing trip along with Emily. Read it, you won't regret it.
Raboteau captures the essence of one's search for 'home' in this rich rendition of her travels to Israel, Jamaica, and Ethiopia - among other places - where blacks have sought out their past. There is some solace for the reader in a feeling of being at one with others who feel a need to delve into what brings people together yet separates their ideologies. This book is long overdue and a must-read toward a better understanding of the concept of 'Zion.'
Searching for Zion is an engaging, educational, and spirited book. It is an interesting hybrid of identity memoir, (its author has a White mom and African American father), and religious history lesson. Not able "to pass" as White or Black, she is often asked, "What are you?" Not an easy mark racially, Raboteau grows up not ever feeling like she rightfully belongs to a group. Hence, she takes off to Israel, Jamaica, Ethiopia, Ghana , and the American South in search of a place that treats her like one of its own, a place where she won't be strip-searched for looking like an Arab (which happens before she is allowed to board her plane to Israel), or verbally and physically attacked by passersby in NY still reeling from 9/11.
Emily Raboteau's prose is tight, imaginative, and instructive. For example, Raboteau describes her bi-racial status and that of her husband this way "Victor was mixed too, though being five years older, somewhat less mixed up than I." Or when visiting Ghana, specifically the edifices that served to enslave the slaves before their carriage to America, Raboteau describes the guided visit as "trauma tourism", a term that precisely captures the experience.
Raboteau has done her research; the book is filled with historical religious background on Africans ranging from the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem, to the Rastas of Jamaica. In her quest to find a place on earth that feels like home, like Zion, like The Promised Land, she seeks out those who have made similar pilgrimages. Her adventures are daring, her questions smart, and her self-awareness sharp. You will be charmed by her chats with the Rastas, cheering her on when she defends herself in Ethiopia against a lecherous man, and curious to see the photos she takes along the way (I hear she shows them at her readings).
Ten years in the making, Searching for Zion was well worth the wait.
Can a young black American woman ever find her true heritage? Emily Raboteau seeks her historical and spiritual roots in multiple countries & amongst multiple religions & cultures. She finds herself a citizen of the world. Her search is urgent, au currant, and teaches lessons to our multicultural world we cannot tease apart the threads that have woven our personal tapestry.