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The Warmth of Other Suns (Paperback)
The Epic Story of America`s Great Migration
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From 1915 to 1970, over six million African Americans migrated from the southern U.S. to the North and West, a demographic phenomenon known as the Great Migration. In this comprehensive, suspenseful narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel W......more
From 1915 to 1970, over six million African Americans migrated from the southern U.S. to the North and West, a demographic phenomenon known as the Great Migration. In this comprehensive, suspenseful narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson unravels the individual motivations for making such a major transition while chillingly documenting day-to-day hardships. An extensively researched, definitive account of this underreported resettlement, THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS is also a personal, intimate portrait of three determined individuals--a sharecropper`s wife, a laborer, and a surgeon--who fled the South hoping for safety, advancement, and freedom from restrictions. This engrossing work surveys the nation`s shift from Reconstruction to Jim Crow to the Civil Rights Act, revealing the ludicrously mundane nature of segregation`s many obstacles and the continued racial struggles throughout the country. Selected by Publishers Weekly as a 2010 Top 10 Book and by the New York Times Book Review as one of the 10 Best Books of 2010.
- Author:
- Wilkerson, Isabel
- ISBN:
- 9780679763888
- Format:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 622
- Publish Date:
- 10/04/2011
- Publisher:
- Vintage Books
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Starred ReviewIda Mae Brandon Gladney, a sharecropper's wife, left Mississippi for Milwaukee in 1937, after her cousin was falsely accused of stealing a white man's turkeys and was almost beaten to death. In 1945, George Swanson Starling, a citrus picker, fled Florida for Harlem after learning of the grove owners' plans to give him a "necktie party" (a lynching). Robert Joseph Pershing Foster made his trek from Louisiana to California in 1953, embittered by "the absurdity that he was doing surgery for the United States Army and couldn't operate in his own home town." Anchored to these three stories is Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Wilkerson's magnificent, extensively researched study of the "great migration," the exodus of six million black Southerners out of the terror of Jim Crow to an "uncertain existence" in the North and Midwest. Wilkerson deftly incorporates sociological and historical studies into the novelistic narratives of Gladney, Starling, and Pershing settling in new lands, building anew, and often finding that they have not left racism behind. The drama, poignancy, and romance of a classic immigrant saga pervade this book, hold the reader in its grasp, and resonate long after the reading is done. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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