Warmth of Other Suns - Paperjale.eus

622 orrialde

2010ko abe. 24a(e)an Random House(e)n argitaratua.

ISBN:: 978-978-067-944-6

(2 berrikuspen)

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. She interviewed more than a thousand individuals, and gained access to new data and offical records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. - Back cover.

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Nerd Picnic (e)k Robin Miles(r)en Warmth of Other Suns liburuaren kritika egin du

In the spirit of the oral histories of former slaves recorded in the 1930s

4 izar

To a potential reader who hesitates at the length (600 pages) - don't worry about it. It's not dense, and it's almost all personal or community stories. A pleasure to read.

The writer, who is deservedly well-known as a journalist and essayist, is not a historian by training. That is a good thing for the readability and structure of the book. She interviewed about 1,200 people for the project but narrates in rich, dirty detail the lives of only three. Between the chapters of their individual stories are contextual chapters about the South, North, and West in different eras.

The analysis of an academic historian would have made the scope of this book impossible.

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