Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926 - Softcover

"Masterfully traces the lives of three generations of an African American family as it grows from meager means to the middle class. Alexander has informed her book with a deep sensitivity to human complexity." --Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

"An unforgettable, stunning portrait, not only of the Bond family, but of the American social fabric." --Seattle Times

"[A] biography of a family, a text in African American studies, and a work of U.S. history . . . spun into gold." --The Women's Review of Books

"Captures the currents of cultural change that swept the nation. . . . [A]n impressive historical tapestry." --USA Today

Traces the rise of an African-American family from poverty to the middle class, drawing on academic archives and personal family papers to follow three generations of the Bond family over the course of eighty seminal years in American history. 12,500 first printing.