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Let Me Lie: Being in the Main an Ethnological Account of the Remarkable Commonwealth of Virginia and the Making of Its History
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James Branch Cabell
Larry Yates
, September 06, 2012
The Commonwealth of Virginia is an especially fine specimen of a real place that is almost invisible behind its carefully constructed myths. This is the best book on that topic, and a hilarious one. My own Scalawag Scholar's Notes on Virginia follows in its footsteps, and I try to acknowledge the debt I owe. You can't say you understand Virginia if you have not read Cabell's book.
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Origins of the Civil Rights Movement Black Communities Organizing for Change
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Aldon D Morris
Larry Yates
, April 04, 2012
I think, with all due respect to the many others, this may be the single most important book I know of on the Freedom Movement. Its analytical and sympathetic approach combine to educate you to how the Movement actually developed. Morris' emphasis is on the grassroots "movement centers" in places like Montgomery, AL, and Petersburg, VA, but he does not ignore the rest of the picture. As wonderful as the impacts of the Movement were on the racial system of this country, I think its deep and accessible lessons about how to struggle effectively for all kinds of social justice may be even more important in the long run. This is a readable, exciting, but intellectually serious approach to those lessons. There are other better places to get the inspiring and personal stories that are so important, including the excellent recent book Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. But for analysis, I still go back to this book often.
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