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Warmth Of Other Suns The Epic Story Of Americas Great Migration

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Warmth Of Other Suns The Epic Story Of Americas Great Migration

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The Warmth of Other Suns is a fascinating, epic narrative of the Great Migration by the brilliant Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson. Recommended By Adrienne C., Powells.com

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andldquo;The story of the Chicago Defender is the story of race in the twentieth century.andrdquo;and#160; andmdash; Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here

Giving voice to the voiceless, the Chicago Defender had a reach and influence extending far beyond Chicago. The newspaper and the family behind it condemned Jim Crow, catalyzed the Great Migration, fostered the integration of the U.S. armed forces in the wake of World War II, and laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement. Over the years, the Defenderandrsquo;s staff included an unparalleled collection of writers, intellectuals, and activists: Ida B. Wells, Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Jesse Jackson were among the better-known bylines, but there were hundreds of less celebrated reporters at the paper who braved lynch mobs and policemenandrsquo;s clubs to get their stories.

Through the depth of his research, veteran reporter Ethan Michaeli constructs a revelatory narrative of race in America. The Defender sheds unprecedented light on an entire civic, political, and intellectual universe whose legacy reverberates well into the twenty-first century.

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andldquo;Ethan Michaeliand#39;s The Defender is a rich, majestic, sweeping history, both of a newspaper and of a people. In these pages, Michaeli captures the degradation and exhilaration of black America in the twentieth century, and driving this story are a handful of men and women infused with incredible courage and a deep faith in journalismand#39;s power to seek justice.andrdquo;

andmdash;Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here.

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andldquo;In the spring of 1905 Robert Abbott sat at a card table squeezed into a corner of a realtorandrsquo;s office on Chicagoandrsquo;s South Side to put together the first issue of a newspaper he called The Defender. In the 110 years since it has more than lived up to its name, its pages filled with searing reports of racial injustice and fierce editorials in support of its readersandrsquo; rights.and#160; Now Ethan Michaeli has recreated The Defenderandrsquo;s remarkable historyandmdash;and reminded us of the power of the press at its courageous best.andrdquo;

andmdash;Kevin Boyle, author of the National Book Award-winning Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age

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andldquo;This is a major work of American historyandmdash;the compelling and richly-researched story of the legendary newspaper and the astonishing collection of history-makers whose lives are forever intertwined.andrdquo;

andmdash;Jonathan Alter, author of The Center Holds: Obama and his Enemies

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andldquo;Here, at long last, is the story that needed to be told.and#160; Inand#160;The Defender, Ethan Michaeli has laid out the power and importance of a fearless newspaper in the struggle for black equality. Meticulously researched, engagingly written, Michaeliand#39;s landmark history of this storied institution, which has served at key moments as lens, interpreter, catalyst or voice for blacksandrsquo; full citizenship rights, will become an essential resource in African American cultural and political studies.andrdquo;

andmdash;Carol Anderson, Professor of African American Studies at Emory University, author of White Rage

andldquo;The story of the Chicago Defender is one of the great untold stories of black America andminus; if not the great story. At every crucial juncture, from the northern migration, to Pullman strikes to civil rights right up to Barack Obama, the Defender was there chronicling, advocating and building an entire civic, political and intellectual universe. It is remarkable to me that this book wasnandrsquo;t written until now and an absolute god-send that Ethan Michaeli has stepped in to fill the void.andrdquo;

andmdash;Chris Hayes, author of Twilight of the Elites, host of MSNBCandrsquo;s andldquo;All In with Chris Hayes.andrdquo;

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andldquo;Ethan Michaeliandrsquo;s compelling book represents socialand#160;history at its finest. The Defender explores Americaandrsquo;s long struggle with raceand#160;through the unique lens of an essential and underappreciated Chicago newspaper at the center of it all.andrdquo;

andmdash;David Maraniss, author of the forthcoming Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story

and#160;andldquo;For more than a century, the South Side of Chicago has been a hub of African-American history, and throughout the years, that saga has been told through the pages of the Chicago Defender newspaper.and#160; In this compelling book, Ethan Michaeli shares the story of the Defender and the essential role it has played in Chicagoand#39;s black community and beyond.andrdquo;andmdash;David Axelrod, author of Believer: My Forty Years in Politics

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andquot;With meticulous attention to detail and in immensely readable prose, Ethan Michaeli, who once worked for the paper, tells The Chicago Defenderand#39;s story and, through it, that of African Americans in the twentieth century. It is a masterful work that goes a long way toward explaining why we are where we are now.andquot;

andmdash;Jessica B.Harris, Professor of English, Queens College/ CUNY and author of High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey From Africa to America

andldquo;Just as the Defender has broken important journalistic ground time and again in itsand#39; storied history, author Ethan Michaeli is an original and intrepid force in Chicago media, having devoted his life to elevating and celebrating the silenced voices of Chicagoand#39;s public housing projects. Michaeli on the Defender is an unbeatable combination.andrdquo;

andmdash;Dave Isay, founder of StoryCorps, author of Listening is an Act of Love

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andldquo;The Defender is the kind of superb nonfiction you donandrsquo;t see much anymoreandmdash;a big, fluidly written, marvelously researched story about fascinating people who shaped American culture. Ethan Michaeli has written a book that is as important as it is compulsively readable.andrdquo;

andmdash;Jonathan Eig, author of The Birth of the Pill

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NATIONAL BEST SELLER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE AND ONE OF BUZZFEED'S BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE

"A brilliant and stirring epic . . . Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath; she humanizes history, giving it emotional and psychological depth."--John Stauffer, The Wall Street Journal

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times -USA Today - O: The Oprah Magazine - Publishers Weekly - Salon - Newsday -The Daily Beast

In this 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. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.

With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, saw his family fall, and finally found peace in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties.

Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos, as well as how they changed these cities with southern food, faith, and culture and improved them with discipline, drive, and hard work. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an "unrecognized immigration" within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is destined to become a classic.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker - The Washington Post - The Economist - Boston Globe - San Francisco Chronicle - Chicago Tribune - Entertainment Weekly - Philadelphia Inquirer - The Guardian - The Seattle Times - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - The Christian Science Monitor

Synopsis

Veteran reporter Ethan Michaeli tells the story of Chicagoandrsquo;s iconic black newspaper, the family and the journalists who made it great, and the hidden history of black America in the twentieth century.


About the Author

ETHAN MICHAELIandnbsp;is an award-winning author, publisher, and journalist with twenty years of experience in Chicagoandrsquo;s inner city. He was a copyeditor and investigative reporter at the Chicago Defender from 1991andndash;1996.


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alynne , January 03, 2013
Portraying the experiences of 3 black migrants from 3 different decades, the author deftly interweaves them into the larger story of the mass migration of blacks out of the South in the years following WWII. Each leaves for different reasons, with different backgrounds, and experiences different levels of economic success, but the unifying desire to breathe "free" unites their stories and those of more than a million others whose stories and struggles were not recorded. This is a "big" book about an important event, but the mixture of the personal stories and historical information made it a very fast read. Nothing dry or boring about it.

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Lauren - Vancouver , January 02, 2013 (view all comments by Lauren - Vancouver)
Best book I read in 2012. Wilkerson tells a story that most of us never learned in school, and she tells it plainly. She traces the course of only three lives and manages to describe the reality of millions. It's a great read - I couldn't wait to read on - and deserving of all the honors. The Warmth of Other Suns should be required reading for all American high school students, and the rest of us, too.

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bookclubreader , January 02, 2013 (view all comments by bookclubreader)
The Warmth of Other Suns gives the reader a valuable insight into the migration and treatment of African Americans in our nation. At times shocking, the author traces three individuals and their struggles, while providing helpful background information. It is an important read as the history books I was assigned to read in school and college never explored this side of the issues of segregation and prejudice in our nation.

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Pearl#1 , January 01, 2013
This book was chosen as a book club selection and did not disappoint. Well written and thought provoking it opened our eyes to yet another chapter in American history. It spurred good discussion about the evolution and migration of Black Americans from the time of slavery in the south to present time as told through the real stories of three individuals. They were typical and yet their stories are incredible. It was a great education.

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anne dawid , January 01, 2013 (view all comments by anne dawid)
Fascinating, extensively researched story of the Great Migration, viewed through the lives of five quite disparate Southern Blacks, of different generations (starting with WWI), male, female, working class, white collar, their successes and struggles. The best book on one of American history's most important 20th century phenomena. The reader comes to know and love these five individuals and their families: an equitable, empathic treatment of how the American Dream does and does not apply to all.

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evalowen , January 01, 2013 (view all comments by evalowen)
I thought I knew how bad things were for African Americans during the pre Civil Rights era, and sadly continued, to some extent,even after desegregation. Isabel Wilkerson's factual, well researched history revealed much to me that I had not known.

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William Andys , January 27, 2011
I'm not sure why I picked this off the shelf at Powells. A sense of obligation, maybe. Wilkerson's project is just so laudable and correct, I feared the book would be dry or depressing, and overpraised by the well-intentioned. Also, not my genre, really. But it passed the first test: flip open to a random page and see if it's hard to stop reading. The whole book turns out to be like that. Full of singular and arresting voices, rich vernacular, powerful stories. The most commanding voice of all is Wilkerson's. What she crafts is really an adventure story, full of struggle and adversity -- and, yeah, some soul-crushing horror -- but also tons of humor and spirit. The story of a people at wit's end setting off into the unknown. Reinventing themselves, staying true to themselves. Surviving, surviving. Riveting. Fascinating. There are people in these pages I will remember forever. And the reviews that claim this particular story has never been told? Well, if it has, I've never come across it, and I cannot imagine it will be told again so well.

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Marci San Francisco , January 27, 2011 (view all comments by Marci San Francisco)
After seeing the author, Isabel Wilkerson, interviewed on C-SPAN'S BOOK TV, I decided to purchase The Warmth of Other Suns to read to my 100 year old mother when I visited her in January 2011. The reason I chose this book was because most of the narrative would have occurred during my Mom's lifetime (she was born in 1910 on a farm in South Dakota)and a good bit of it would have occurred during my lifetime. Also, the subject matter was something which she and I have discussed many times, and in which we both have considerable interest. Mom suggested I tape my reading of the book since I had a small voice recorder with me. This proved to be the magic ingredient: as I read to my Mom across her kitchen table in the morning sunlight of Ft. Collins, Colorado, the narrative provoked memories of her life experiences which would never have come up in ordinary conversation. And all of them, and our conversation about them, are now recorded along with the narrative of Wilkerson's brilliant text. Both Mom and I were saddened by the horrific treatment of our black brothers and sisters in the South, and we were both shocked at how much we did not know about the depths of inhumanity inflicted upon them. Wilkerson's skillful interweaving of historical fact and personal narrative of her three chosen spotlighted subjects is the perfect combination of the general and the intimately personal to hold the reader at close attention throughout the book. This wonderful book should be required reading for all Americans. If Isabel Wilkerson never writes another book, she will have, by this one alone, achieved a rare place among the chroniclers of the real story of the beautiful black people who came here unwillingly and enriched the lives of all of us in spite of the pain inflicted upon them. I am deeply grateful to her.

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Jean Felix , January 03, 2011
Brilliant, poignant, fascinating, the sort of book you want to go on forever and ever, even though it is 623 pages long and breaks your heart. This book is a masterpiece and should be required reading for all Americans, especially all white Americans living in our southern states, and certainly for all Republicans. Some persons I know who refer to President Obama as "The Kingfish" should be required to read it three times.

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Anna Moncrief , January 03, 2011 (view all comments by Anna Moncrief)
This book is not only a story of the Great Migration but a history book that every American should read. The narrative style that Wilkerson uses is an exciting compliment to the factual details supporting each character's timeline. Every chapter is filled with unrelenting stories of courage, heartache and true American spirit. The Warmth of Other Suns is a powerful and conscience-burdening examination of the plight of an entire race to find freedom and a break-down of social ignorance.

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Anita Kline4 , January 03, 2011
Moving, beautifully told and mostly unknown story what life was like in the South for Afro-Americans after the Civil War and in the northern cities they escaped to during the Great Migration which began during WWI. I have gained a whole new level of understanding of the Black experience and what has led us to the deep divisions--between urban and rural, north and south, black and white--that we see around us today.

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tortaluga , January 03, 2011
So much history that I had never learned about before, and oh what a pleasure to read.

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Susanne Fordham , January 03, 2011 (view all comments by Susanne Fordham)
The writing captures your attention and then you are brought into lives of those who struggle and prevail. Beautifully written, intellectually challenging, this opens your eyes to worlds that we should all be aware of.

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Jill Grobe , January 02, 2011
An amazing account of the Great Migration of African American families from south to north between 1915-1975. Wilkerson weaves US history around the lives and experiences of three migrants and their families, taking readers along for the journey from Florida to New York City; rural Mississippi to Chicago's South Shore; and Louisiana to LA. An excellent read and by far my favorite book of 2010.

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Pamela Erbe , January 02, 2011 (view all comments by Pamela Erbe)
A brilliant and passionate history of the Great Migration--a phenomenon that has been seriously overlooked and neglected. I learned so much about a subject I thought I understood--the Jim Crow South--and also about the responses to the migration in the northern cities that led eventually to ghettoes and a permanent underclass. But what I loved most about this beautifully written book was that I could not put it down. Because Wilkerson based her history in the lives of three individuals, whose chronicles form the spine of the narrative, the book reads like a novel, and the too-often dry details of history come alive on the page. Without a doubt, the best book among a lot of excellent books I read this year.

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dgg0207 , January 02, 2011
I learned that I was not as informed about "the south" as I had thought as I read this book. It reads like a novel yet Wilkerson meticulously researched its content. If you read and found "The Help" interesting, then this book is a must. I'm surprised it hasn't made more progress in sales given the author was on TV quite a bit talking about the book. Perhaps the topic is a bitter pill especially given that Haley Barbour, Miss. governor claims that race relations "weren't that bad" in the south. If you have any questions as to the veracity of Barbour's claims, one chapter in you''ll be convinced that he's totally out of reality. I was truly shocked as to the lengths that many all around the country stigmatized and deprived black Americans. Highly recommended.

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El Maestro , January 01, 2011
Excellent. The book intertwines personal histories with the broader history of the migration of African Americans from the south to the north and west. The book is both informative and heart-breaking.

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vicki nino osby , January 01, 2011
Besides being an incredibly engaging read, this book is also the recording of historical events that have long been untold. History as story telling makes a permanent impression. Way beyond dry fact this book reaches out and dares you to forget how and why this migration continues to be of great influence.

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Keith Hollingworth , January 01, 2011
This is one of the most important books I have ever read. It deserves to be written and talked about and placed in every library in America. I think it should be required reading for every senator and congressmen. Hopefully it will make people aware of this terrible time in US history and aid in healing our nation and continue a dialogue about this racist country.

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rcowan , January 01, 2011
An extremely well-researched, sensitive account of a major event in American life that involved millions of people and continues to influence American life.

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YoBalto , January 01, 2011
This book describes the fascinating story of the great migration of Black Americans from the "Jim Crow" South. This migration took place from around 1915 until well into the middle of the 20th century. The author provides this sweeping history through narratives about the journeys of several of the participants in this phenomenon. These narratives are enhanced by detailed history about the times and social context in which these people lived. The author's connection with her subjects is revealed in the passion with which she writes. Readers familiar and unfamiliar with this will learn a great deal about this subject and how it has affected our country, even to this day. For example, we learn how public policy and local mores created many of our inner cities with their seemingly intractable problems. I heartily recommend this book to anyone interested in recent American history as well as a good story well written.

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Sarah Snadow , January 01, 2011
This is not an "easy read"! But this book takes you from joy to heart break with a story that has not been told this well...the Great Black Migration.

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Josephine Rodriguez , January 01, 2011 (view all comments by Josephine Rodriguez)
This important book offers a glimpse into the lives of individuals who made the decision to leave the South and all of its problems for better lives in the North.

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Ronald R , January 01, 2011
Great book! Well researched!

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iluvbooks , January 01, 2011
This is undoubtedly one of the best books I have read. From 1915-1975, six million African Americans made the journey out of the south into places where they thought they could share in the American democratic dream, dignity and the right to work hard and achieve for themselves and for their children. There is so much I did not know about the African American experience, despite broad reading habits. The book gives me even more respect for those who did make the decision to leave terrible conditions and venture into the unknown. Isabel Wilkerson does a remarkable job at portraying the experience of this huge emigration and how it changed US history and culture

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Michael Higgins , January 01, 2011
Excellent!! Will probably read it again in a month or so because it is so good!

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libby465 , January 01, 2011
the best book i've read this year

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JLP , January 01, 2011 (view all comments by JLP)
Probably the best non-fiction book of the year. Wilkerson spent years interviewing people who had come up from the South to the North, over the period from just after World War I to after WWII. She alternates the stories of three of these people (a sharecropper's wife from Mississippi who came to Chicago, a citrus picker and union organizer from Florida who went to Harlem, and a doctor from Louisiana who ended up in Los Angeles) with historical data, data that shows that a lot of what we thought we knew about the people who came north just isn't so. They were generally better educated, harder-working and more stable, what some have called the "immigrant effect", for they were, indeed, immigrants in their own country. Like the folks who sailed steerage from Eastern Europe, Ireland, Italy, the African-Americans who came north had grit and determination, and weren't afraid to face a new life in an unknown bourne. It's interesting to see the different ways Wilkerson's informants handled the change, who shucked off the South and who kept it with them, how in escaping one form of racism, they found another, how they raised their children and coped with a strange, new world. Gorgeously written, too. This sentence is typical: "Many of the people who left the South never exactly sat their children down to . . . tell them why they speak like melted butter and their children speak like footsteps on pavement . . ." Wilkerson's book is a "must" read.

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Jason Straight , October 30, 2010 (view all comments by Jason Straight)
An instant classic. Wilkerson using the lives of 3 different people to stand for the millions of African Americans who took part in America's greatest internal migration. Both intensely personal and full of scholarly erudition, you won't want to put this book down and the people you encounter in it will stay with you. This is by far one of the best books of 2010.

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lovingreader , September 30, 2010 (view all comments by lovingreader)
Narrative nonfiction? I didn't know what this meant when I read the NYT review of this book. What it means is a very readable history based on stories about people, with historical context woven in. I thought often of Kathryn Stockett's The Help when I read this book, as they are equally vivid in showing me a world I am glad to know more about.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780679444329
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
09/07/2010
Publisher:
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
Language:
English
Pages:
640
Height:
1.52IN
Width:
6.41IN
Thickness:
1.75
Copyright Year:
2010
Author:
Isabel Wilkerson
Author:
Ethan Michaeli
Author:
Isabel Wilkerson
Subject:
Ethnic Studies-Immigration
Subject:
African American Studies-Black Heritage

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