What does it mean to uproot and ground? Ida Mae

          I have found all of our discussions thus far in WS 310 so insightful and has already given me so much more to think about when viewing our culture, women, and how American came to what it is today and right now. In reference to the reading we had prepared for class last Thursday, "Introduction: Uprootings/Regroundings Questions of Home and Migration," there were several connections I found within questions from this text as well as "Warmth of Other Suns."
        Within the first question of what things contain mobility, I think as we discussed in class there are "here factors" and there are "there" factors. There are also push factors as well as pull factors which enhance the sense of mobility. This mobility is driven by the power of choice and the power to stay put. However with that being said, "staying put" is not without movement. Transitioning over to "Warmth of Other Suns" and Ida Mae's role in mobility, we can see where she lands. She is often caught in this place of necessity and an agency of choice. Ida Mae struggles with the decision to move to Chicago or "stay put." 

       Moving forward with the theme of "uprooting and grounding," the question is addressed of what all does uprooting mean? I don't know that there is a direct understanding of what is means but I think every ethnic group and human can interpret this differently in terms of their own migration. Going back to the "Warmth of Other Suns,"  Ida Mae’s gender is of a certain minority already; a black female.  Her function in her family and this is sort of what I understand to be her "grounding." She leaves her family, friends, etc in Mississippi to land in a place where she knows nothing of the people or the social understandings. This is essentially in my thoughts Ida Mae's "uprooting" as a whole. And finally I think in the way that she must learn to accept the whites and the industrial impact and whole new experiences in Chicago, this circles back to the theme of more of her now "NEW "groundings.