It establishes Lawrence Jackson as a maverick, essential writer. A stirring consideration of homeownership, fatherhood, race, faith, and the history of an American city In 2016, Lawrence Jackson accepted a new job in Baltimore, searched for schools for his sons, and bought a house. Shelter is an extraordinary biography of a city and a celebration of our capacity for domestic thriving. (KCTV) - Nature lovers in Lawrence are heartsick and angry about the fate of a 6,000-year-old prairie filled with rare wildflowers. But his purchase, and what it might mean for his children, provides a foundation for this personal, spiritual, and civic history that captures the raging absurdity of American life. Join Lawrence Jackson, Ph.D., for a reading and discussion of his 2022 memoir Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore, which is at once a nuanced. His new neighborhood, Homeland-largely White, built on racial covenants-is not where he is "supposed" to live. With sardonic wit, Jackson describes his struggle to make a home in the city that had just been convulsed by the uprising that followed the murder of Freddie Gray. This would be unremarkable but for the fact that he grew up in West Baltimore and his job was at Johns Hopkins, whose vexed relationship to its neighborhood, to the city and its history, provides a point of departure for this captivating memoir in essays. When Lawrence Jackson accepted a new job teaching in Baltimore, he searched for schools for his sons and bought a house.
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