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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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The Geography of Hate: The Great Migration Through Small-Town America

The Geography of Hate: The Great Migration Through Small-Town America

Sdunzik, Jennifer

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Black American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesRegional: Midwest

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ISBN10: 0252087542
ISBN13: 9780252087547
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: Nov 7 2023
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
The uncomfortable truths that shaped small communities in the midwest

During the Great Migration, Black Americans sought new lives in midwestern small towns only to confront the pervasive efforts of white residents determined to maintain their area's preferred cultural and racial identity. Jennifer Sdunzik explores this widespread phenomenon by examining how it played out in one midwestern community. Sdunzik merges state and communal histories, interviews and analyses of population data, and spatial and ethnographic materials to create a rich public history that reclaims Black contributions and history. She also explores the conscious and unconscious white actions that all but erased Black Americans--and the terror and exclusion used against them--from the history of many midwestern communities.

An innovative challenge to myth and perceived wisdom, The Geography of Hate reveals the socioeconomic, political, and cultural forces that prevailed in midwestern towns and helps explain the systemic racism and endemic nativism that remain entrenched in American life.

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