Another Way Home
The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family
200 pages
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22 halftones
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5 1/2 x 8 1/2
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© 2004
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Prologue
1. Alpha: The Long Mysterious Exodus of Death
2. Beginnings: Strange Fates
3. Sacred Wounds
4. On the Place
5. Matriarchy
6. The Lightning Fields
7. New Orleans
8. Day and the City
9. The Ring
10. A Stern Destiny: Chicago Found and Lost
11. The Post-Depression Years
12. Streetcars
13. In the Castle of Our Skin
14. Dining In
15. Go Down the Street
16. Naming the Holy
17. Strange Fruit
18. Our Father’s Freight Train Blues
19. Lifelines
20. Last Years
21. Omega
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
1. Alpha: The Long Mysterious Exodus of Death
2. Beginnings: Strange Fates
3. Sacred Wounds
4. On the Place
5. Matriarchy
6. The Lightning Fields
7. New Orleans
8. Day and the City
9. The Ring
10. A Stern Destiny: Chicago Found and Lost
11. The Post-Depression Years
12. Streetcars
13. In the Castle of Our Skin
14. Dining In
15. Go Down the Street
16. Naming the Holy
17. Strange Fruit
18. Our Father’s Freight Train Blues
19. Lifelines
20. Last Years
21. Omega
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Review Quotes
Nikki Giovanni
"Another Way Home tells the story of all of us looking to be warm and dry. It is a story to share. A story to pass along."
Robert B. Stepto, author of Blue as the Lake: A Personal Geography
"A major accomplishment of Another Way Home is to demonstrate how a woman of mixed race could live a life that does not conform to all of the stereotypes promulgated by popular fiction and traditional perceptions. Ronne Hartfield’s mother, fondly known as Day, was not a tragic mulatto. She knew how, as Hartfield puts it so well, to live with who she was and with who all of her people were. This is a loving and honest book."
Marian Wright Edelman, author of The Measure of Our Success and president of the
"In this lyrical, riveting account of her mother’s life and history, Ronne Hartfield underscores the importance and permanence of our families’ legacies. You’ll be so enriched by reading it."
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, author of Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer
"A poignant, powerful, and soulful narrative, Another Way Home captures the layers of life, the mixing of cultures, the crossing of boundaries, and the complex history of Day Shepherd, a mulatto woman—born at the turn of the last century—who looked white and lived colored. Blending the imagination of a storyteller, the heart of a poet, the lens of a social historian, and the devotion of a daughter, Ronne Hartfield weaves an inspiring intergenerational tale of an American family; a tale of ambition and compassion, anguish and hope; a tale filled with welcome warmth and earthy humor."
Vanessa Bush | Booklist
"This is a warm and touching memoir of a close-knit family as well as a record of the tumultuous history of race relations in the U.S."
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