Other stories deal with issues of race and belonging at home in America.
Ex-boarder leaders cannot conceive of communal solutions, because they haven't had enough belonging at home to understand what it means.
In raising such questions, historians have begun to place other concepts, like power and belonging, at the center of the story of emancipation.
When this country had Asia's hottest economy, fast-growing companies could afford to buy employee loyalty with guarantees of lifetime jobs, and a sense of belonging at a company that treated workers like extended family.
The Apthorp, in all its Beaux-Arts glory, gave Ephron a sense of community and a feeling of belonging at a particularly low moment in her life: My apartment in the Apthorp was really the only space that my children and I had ever lived in together.
What was shocking was when they said, 'Miss, it's really hard not to belong at school, but nothing is as painful as not belonging at home.'" Without meaning to, parents cause that pain when they allow children to sense the disappointment, embarrassment or indifference they feel towards them.
